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Hello:


I don't know as already smartmontools failed ...


It would seem that hdparm is not a suitable tool to work with SAS drives.
https://sourceforge.net/p/hdparm/bugs/73/


Perhaps the two SAS drives do not implement the SATA IDENTIFY command, which is what hdparm is sending them. If they ...

Hello:

What are "ID issues"?


Like I mentioned in my last post:

The problem arose as I used lsblk to re-check the USB drive's asigned letter instead of checking it with gparted.
Big mistake as for some reason the USB drive did not mount and /dev/sdg1 ended up being the SAS drive.




I did ...

Hello:

.. uses the latest Testdisk version.
... un it from a live linux on a USB stick.


As per your suggestion, I ran testdisk again from a Knoppix USB.
Unfortunately, it did not write the partition to the drive.

Here is the content of the testdisk.log file:


Fri Feb 11 20:59:57 2022
Command ...

Hello:

Thanks for the fast reply.
Much appreciated.


How big is your ISO file?

The *.iso file is 1.2G:


~/Downloads$ ls -lh chimaera_amd64_desktop-live.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 1.2G Feb 10 19:10 chimaera_amd64_desktop-live.iso
~/Downloads$



I have seen this type of issues with USB ...

Hello:

For whatever reasons (from carelesness to a USB drive with ID issues) I ended up dd'ing an *.iso image on to a new Toshiba Ultrastar 300Gb SAS HDD containing relatively important stuff. I say relatively because I cannot exactly recall what was there.

The drive contains only unencripted data ...