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

[John Driezen]

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.

GNOME Disks program shows:

Model ATA ST1000VM002-1CT1 (SC23)
Size  1.0 TB (1,000,204,886,016 bytes)
Partitioning Unknown (PBMR)
Device /dev/sdi (hard drive in a usb3 sata dock)
Contents Unallocated Space

Gparted shows:

unallocated 931.51 GiB

/sudo/fdisk -l gives:

Disk /dev/sdi: 931.53 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: ST1000VM002-1CT1
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device     Boot Start        End    Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdi1           1 4294967295 4294967295   2T ee GPT

/sudo/parted -l gives:

Error: /dev/sdi: unrecognised disk label
Model: ATA ST1000VM002-1CT1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdi: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: unknown
Disk Flags:

I have had similar results with three other 1 TB drives.  Drives under 1 
TB I seem to be able to read using Linux and the USB SATA dock.  The 
SATA dock is supposed to support drives up to 8 TB.

If I put a gpt partition table and format a 1 TB drive as NTFS on my 
Linux box and give the drive to my friend all is well, and both he and I 
can read the files from the drive (also connected via the USB SATA dock).

Can anyone figure out what's going on?  I'm at a complete loss. The only 
other test I can do is connect my USB SATA dock to my Windows 10 gaming rig.

John Driezen

jdriezen at sympatico.ca