Did I just brick my SAS drive?
I was trying to make a pool with the other 5 drives and this one kept giving errors. As a completer beginner I turned to gpt…
What can I do? Is that drive bricked for good?
Don’t clown on me, I understand my mistake in running shell scripts from Ai…
EMPTY DRIVES NO DATA
The initial error was:

Edit: sde and SDA are the same drive, name just changed for some reason And also I know it was 100% my fault and preventable 😞
**Edit: ** from LM22, output of sudo sg_format -vv /dev/sda
BIG EDIT:
For people that can help (btw, thx a lot), some more relevant info:
Exact drive model: SEAGATE ST4000NM0023 XMGG
HBA model and firmware: lspci | grep -i raid 00:17.0 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation SATA Controller [RAID mode] Its an LSI card Bought it here
Kernel version / distro: I was using Truenas when I formatted it. Now trouble shooting on other PC got (6.8.0-38-generic), Linux Mint 22
Whether the controller supports DIF/DIX (T10 PI): output of lspci -vv
Whether other identical drives still work in the same slot/cable: yes all the other 5 drives worked when i set up a RAIDZ2 and a couple of them are exact same model of HDD
COMMANDS This is what I got for each command: verbatim output from
Thanks for all the help 😁


Thanks for the continued support! ❤
I’ve attached an identical Segate SAS drive from the server.
To confirm, it is the same LSI card that was in the TrueNAS server. I pulled it out of the server and put it into the trouble shooting machine, where I run the commands.
It is this one: 01:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller [0107]: Broadcom / LSI SAS2308 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [1000:0087] (rev 05)
I did not see your other reply lol, I will also try this command that you recommended:
sudo sg_format –format –size=512 –fmtpinfo=0 –pfu=0 /dev/sdb
Also, the sg_format ran for less than 5 minutes, very quick. However, if I can recall, it did say it was completed.
**Note: ** “Bricked Drive” turned to sdb
Identical working drive installed as sda
Here is the dmesg -T > dmesg-full.txt with the identical drive
Here is the code from: (with the output for each drive, separately)
sudo lspci -nnkvv
sudo lsblk -o NAME,MODEL,SIZE,PHY-SeC,LOG-SeC,ROTA
sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdX
sudo sg_inq -vv /dev/sdX
sudo sg_readcap -ll /dev/sdX
sudo sg_modes -a /dev/sdX
sudo sg_vpd -a /dev/sdX
Thanks again for all the help, I await your reply. :)
I will let you know the results of (sudo sg_format –format –size=512 –fmtpinfo=0 –pfu=0 /dev/sdb), as soon as it’s done.