pascaldragon, 2 months ago

@astrid so they were (supposed to be) used together with Data Integrity it seems? 🤔 ( https://docs.kernel.org/block/data-integrity.html )

astrid, 2 months ago

@pascaldragon well, i'm reformatting them to be 512 anyways because i'm raiding them

pascaldragon, 2 months ago

@astrid and your raid probably doesn't support that feature? 🤔 Good point 😅

astrid, 2 months ago

@pascaldragon i mean, software raiding lol

pascaldragon, 2 months ago

@astrid MDADM, Intel or AMD? 🤔 And they can't handle that? 😲

astrid, 2 months ago

@pascaldragon idk i'm just running linux

tara, 2 months ago

@astrid 520b wasn't the IBM format?

astrid, 2 months ago

@tara apparently it's common in enterprise drives?

izaya, 2 months ago

@astrid @tara extra bytes are used for ECC and/or RAID metadata I believe

astrid, 2 months ago

@izaya @tara yep, parity calculations

astrid, 2 months ago

@izaya @tara but only for raid devs that support em

izaya, 2 months ago

@astrid you will need to reformat them, I think sg_ yeah you got it

astrid, 2 months ago

seems like the fix is to run sg_format over them

astrid, 2 months ago

god knows how long this will take

astrid, 2 months ago

perhaps an hour? awawawa

astrid, 2 months ago

it seems to have gone through 2% in 5 minutes so assuming linear hard drive formatting behavior this will probably be a few. guess that's what sleep is for