Catalin Patulea wrote:
> Do you happen to know what kind of bridge chips are typically found in
> Seagate enclosures? (Anything that could lead to a datasheet, or maybe
> even a driver.)

Here is an older info from Seagate FAQ:
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/203731en

In case you find newer info, please report it on this list.

>   I would like to be able to toggle the sector offset if
> possible, and the enclosure also has some LEDs on the front (hanging
> off some GPIOs I'm guessing) that might be fun to play with.
>
One reason for the sector offset might be some LBA mapping feature to 
support legacy partitioning.
On: LBA 0->1 (LBA 63->PBA 8)
Off: LBA 0->8 (PBA 0->1).


Thanks,
Christian


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