WD Passport 4TB drives don't support WRITE SAME command

Re:WD Passport 4TB drives don't support WRITE SAME command by rowanG077 on Thursday March 26, 2020 @09:05PM (#22699612)

For SAS drives I would recommend sg3_utils [1]. You can basically query what the drive supports via `sg_opcodes`.

smartctl isn't really designed to handle SCSI protocol I think. It can do basic things but for anything deep you better use sg3_utils.

[1] http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg3_utils.html

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Re:WD Passport 4TB drives don't support WRITE SAME command by bayindirh on Sunday March 29, 2020 @07:50AM (#22718217)

Thanks for the reply and the utility. I'll take a look into it. Since I'm familiar with smartctl due to my server management roles, it came to my mind so I've shared. I never thought it should be able to handle beyond what it needs to do get SMART and other diagnostic data.

Thanks again. :)

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