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

[CrankyOldBugger]

I'm the one with the dock issues back a year ago that you're thinking of.
In my case it turned out to be dock firmware issues.  I bought a new dock
and suddenly life was good...


On Mon, 10 Jan 2022 at 01:13, Chris Irwin via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Chris Irwin
>
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