I am trying to flash firmware onto a SAS HDD, however I believe SED is my problem and not allowing this, what do I need to disable the self encryption on the drive?

I am running CentOS and the drive is ST6000NM0034.

Any advice is much appreciated.

How are you trying to flash the firmware?

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I am using sg_write command, I have flash quite a few different drives, a lot with success and 1 type of drive which loosing the capacity however this drive 'ST6000NM0034' I am just getting a response back and I believe it is due to the self encryption on the drive;

Write buffer cmd: 3b 05 00 00 00 00 19 60 00 00
write buffer: Descriptor format, current; Sense key: Illegal Request
ASC=26, vendor specific qualification ASCQ=99 (hex)
Descriptor type: Field replaceable unit
code=0x3f
Descriptor type: Vendor specific [0x80]
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
bad field in Write buffer cdb

I hope this answers the question

I have not worked on this particular drive, but most newer Seagates have a 'locked' PCB and Firmware which prevents any access to the drive. Looks like yours may be one of those.

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Is there anyway to unlock the PCB if that is what the issue is?