[kwlug-disc] Trouble Reading 1 TB Hard Drive in USB SATA Dock

[Chris Irwin]

On Sun, Jan 09, 2022 at 05:38:54PM -0500, John Driezen wrote:
>I am trying to read a 1 TB hard drive that my friend partitioned and 
>formatted on his Windows 10 system.  The hard drive in question is a 
>Seagate 1 TB ST1000VM002 SATA hard drive connected to my Linux Mint 
>box via a USB SATA dock.  I am running Linux Mint Cinnamon 20.1.

I assume your friend was not using this dock, and you are? That's very 
probably the problem. Some docks are "helpful" and change sector sizes 
(4096->512) for some reason.

Try a different dock, or try it directly in a computer.

There may be a fixed firmware for your dock.

I believe there was a bit of a discussion on this list about a year or 
so ago (although my concept of time lately is fuzzy -- that could be 
anywhere from 6mo to 3 years ago at this point).

I tossed my dock for this reason. There may have been an alternate 
firmware for it, but I couldn't figure out how to load it to try.

>/sudo/parted -l gives:
> [...]
>Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

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