Did I just brick my SAS drive?
I was trying to make a pool with the other 5 drives and this one kept giving errors. As a completer beginner I turned to gpt…
What can I do? Is that drive bricked for good?
Don’t clown on me, I understand my mistake in running shell scripts from Ai…
Edit: EMPTY DRIVES NO DATA
The initial error was:

Edit: sde and SDA are the same drive, name just changed for some reason And also I know it was 100% my fault and preventable 😞



Right now there isn’t enough information to conclude that the drive is “bricked”.
sg_format on a SAS drive with DIF enabled can absolutely make the disk temporarily unusable to the OS if the format parameters no longer match what the HBA/driver expects, but that is very different from a dead drive.
To make any determination, more data is required. At minimum (boot with a live Linux USB drive if you are unable to get to this information):
Please provide verbatim output from:
Also specify:
Common possibilities (none can be confirmed without logs):
Things that are usually recoverable on SAS drives:
Actual permanent bricking from sg_format alone is rare unless firmware flashing or vendor-specific commands were involved.
Until logs are posted, all anyone can honestly say is:
The drive is not currently usable, but there is no evidence yet that it is permanently damaged.
If you can share this information it might be possible to get the drive back online, though I make no promises.
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