[TriLUG] 512/4096B cluster size incompatibilities

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Tue, 1 Jan 2019, Steven Tardy wrote:

>> Anyone know if I can flash these drives? Is this likely to fix the problem?
>
> Google: seagate disk firmware Brings you to a page to enter your SN to check, 
> but both of those SNs return: no firmware found for this SN

thanks. I expect that they wouldn't tell me what the logical sector size would 
be after the flashing.

> I would change the copy method from `dd` to something a little higher level 
> like `dump`/`restore` or maybe create the file systems on the destination disk 
> and `rsync`.

that's what I'm doing now that I know what the problem is.

I'm surprised that dd and ddrescue don't emit errors.

I would hope that both disks were OK by smartctl.

Thanks Joe

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