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SeaChest_Lite_120_11923_64.exe: unknown option -- showSupportedSectorSizes #12

Closed mvadu closed 1 year ago

mvadu commented 3 years ago
  1. Downloaded latest seachest zip from http://support.seagate.com/seachest/SeaChestUtilities.zip
  2. Extracted, and ran SeaChest_Lite_120_11923_64.exe --scan, found the device i am interested in
  3. Trying SeaChest_Lite_120_11923_64.exe -d PD3 --showSupportedSectorSizes to find if the HDD supports 4096 sector size natively 
    SeaChest_Lite_120_11923_64.exe -d PD3 --showSupportedSectorSizes
SeaChest_Lite_120_11923_64.exe: unknown option -- showSupportedSectorSizes
SeaChest_Lite: Unable to parse --showSupportedSectorSizes command line option
Please use --help for more information.
  4. Help actually shows showSupportedSectorSizes is indeed an supported option. 
    --showSupportedFormats
            This option will show the supported formats of a device.
            These can be used to change the sector size or
            used with a format operation. On SAS, this is the
            supported block lengths and protection types VPD page. (SBC4
            and later) On SATA, this is the sector configuration log. (ACS4
            and later) If the device does not report supported sector
            sizes, please consult your product manual.
vonericsen commented 3 years ago

Hi @mvadu,

I downloaded the package and tested it and see the same thing.

Looking through some changes and verifying the help output from the tool (not the user guides), the --showSupportedSectorSizes was replaced with --showSupportedFormats to consolidate a couple different outputs into one option.

It looks like the user guides are still referencing --showSupportedSectorSizes, so I will work on updating those to correct that issue.

Let me know if you have any other trouble with this.

vonericsen commented 3 years ago

Hi @mvadu,

This should have been corrected in the last update published to the website earlier this month and the last two versions pushed here. We are still in progress posting the most recent version (v21.04.27) to the website, but it is available on Toolbin already as of today. Please close this issue if it resolved this for you, or please let us know if you have any additional issues regarding the documentation. Thanks!