Formatting 4kn Drives

4 posts, 3 voices

Dec 21, 2024 5:08am Chris C. (2322) 204 posts	Hey All, I got my 4Kn drive in. Partman can see the drive but fails to format it. If I try an external usb dock, I get an ‘unsupported sector size’ after formatting it. My drive is a Seagate ST20000NM105. HForm wasn’t much help either – it thinks it’s an IDE drive when connected to SATA and in the USB dock, it won’t even Initialize.

Dec 21, 2024 10:28am Anton Reiser (471) 64 posts	Send me a mail. My 4Kn formater may help you. [removed]

Dec 21, 2024 7:00pm Chris C. (2322) 204 posts	All up and running thanks to Anton! I tried his formatter and it worked. Backing up my Titanium boot drive to a 2TB Filecore drive right now!

6 hours ago Jon Abbott (1421) 2654 posts	Chris – could you email a debug log from Partition Manager to me please, so I can see what sector sizes the drive is reporting. Could you also confirm the drive model. I think what you have is an EXOS Enterprise ST2000NM0105. “Unsupported Sector Size” isn’t an error I’m familiar with, although I think the Titanium uses ADFS4. I couldn’t find the error in that either, so that’s a bit of a mystery.