EXOS 7E8 ST6000NM0095 can't format drive

Hi! I bought 2 used SAS drives, a exos 7E8 and an older model. I formatted both to 512 succefully, but I can wipe and use on truenas only the first one, the second one (ST6000NM0034 DKS2F-H6R0SS 7FA6) gave me a "IO error"when I try to wipe it, afaik it is caused by the proprietary firmware...
So I managed to get it replaced by the seller, the replacement is the same model as the working exos, but it give me the same IO error as the older one... I did the same procedures (

Code:: sg_format --format --size=512

) on both so idk why the first one works, but not the second.

This is the smartctl -i output:

Code:: root@truenas[/home/truenas_admin]# smartctl -i /dev/sdd smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.6.44-production+truenas] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Vendor: SEAGATE Product: DKS2H-H6R0SS Revision: 7F08 Compliance: SPC-3 User Capacity: 6,001,175,126,016 bytes [6.00 TB] Logical block size: 512 bytes Physical block size: 4096 bytes LU is fully provisioned Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm Form Factor: 3.5 inches Logical Unit id: 0x5000c500a7cxxxxx Serial number: ZAD7VZ7J000xxxxxxx Device type: disk Transport protocol: SAS (SPL-4) Local Time is: Sat Feb 1 07:53:18 2025 PST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled Temperature Warning: Disabled or Not Supported

It is the same as the other exos (minus serial and spin hours).
Any idea on how should I start troubleshooting this problem?

Thank you!!

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This is the smartctl's outup:

Code:: truenas_admin@truenas[~]$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdd smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.6.44-production+truenas] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Vendor: SEAGATE Product: DKS2H-H6R0SS Revision: 7F08 Compliance: SPC-3 User Capacity: 6,001,175,126,016 bytes [6.00 TB] Logical block size: 512 bytes Physical block size: 4096 bytes LU is fully provisioned Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm Form Factor: 3.5 inches Logical Unit id: 0x5000c500a7c314b3 Serial number: ZAD7VZ7J0000C92507UU Device type: disk Transport protocol: SAS (SPL-4) Local Time is: Tue Feb 4 00:14:10 2025 PST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled Temperature Warning: Disabled or Not Supported === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Health Status: OK Grown defects during certification = 0 Total blocks reassigned during format = 0 Total new blocks reassigned = 0 Power on minutes since format = 2245 Current Drive Temperature: 28 C Drive Trip Temperature: 68 C Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 33971:34 Manufactured in week 04 of year 2019 Specified cycle count over device lifetime: 10000 Accumulated start-stop cycles: 168 Specified load-unload count over device lifetime: 300000 Accumulated load-unload cycles: 1589 Elements in grown defect list: 0 Vendor (Seagate Cache) information Blocks sent to initiator = 1230887008 Blocks received from initiator = 93989848 Blocks read from cache and sent to initiator = 76627 Number of read and write commands whose size <= segment size = 4391561 Number of read and write commands whose size > segment size = 0 Vendor (Seagate/Hitachi) factory information number of hours powered up = 33971.57 number of minutes until next internal SMART test = 17 Error counter log: Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total ECC rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors read: 366282855 0 0 366282855 0 640.059 0 write: 0 0 0 0 0 49.207 0 Non-medium error count: 0 [GLTSD (Global Logging Target Save Disable) set. Enable Save with '-S on'] SMART Self-test log Num Test Status segment LifeTime LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ] Description number (hours) # 1 Background long Completed - 33886 - [- - -] # 2 Background short Completed - 33875 - [- - -] Long (extended) Self-test duration: 5 seconds [0.1 minutes]

No problems there. Probably more helpful if you showed your full terminal log with commands and errors. Boot up a usb ubunutu or something and see if you can wipe them

I tried creating a 2TB partition and I'm getting this types of errors:

Code:: Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.37.2). Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. Be careful before using the write command. Device does not contain a recognized partition table. The size of this disk is 5.5 TiB (6001175126016 bytes) . DOS partition table format cannot be used on drives for volumes larger than 2199023255040 bytes for 512- byte sectors. Use GUID partition table format (GPT). Created a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0xaf36f027. Command (m for help): n Partition type p primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free) e extended (container for logical partitions) Select (default p): p Partition number (1-4, default 1): 1 First sector (2048-4294967295, default 2048) : Last sector, +/-sectors or +/-size{K,M,G,T,P] (2048-4294967295, default 4294967295) : Created a new partition 1 of type 'Linux' and of size 2 TiB. Command (m for help): w The partition table has been altered. [ 4734.099191] blk_update_request : critical target error, dev sdc, sector 0 op 0x1: (WRITE) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 [ 4734.099223] Buffer I/O error on dev sdc, logical block 0, lost async page write Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table /dev/sdc: fsync device failed: Input/output error

EXOS 7E8 ST6000NM0095 can't format drive

EXOS 7E8 ST6000NM0095 can't format drive

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