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

[Doug Moen]

My first guess is that your friend's Windows 10 system formatted the drive with a newer version of NTFS than your Linux Mint kernel is capable of recognizing.

In Windows 10 version 1709, NTFS was updated to support 8 petabyte volumes. That would have changed the version number and the disk layout.

On Sun, Jan 9, 2022, at 5:38 PM, John Driezen wrote:
> 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
>
>
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