Hello,
I am running Ubuntu 18.04 guest OS on Widows host.
I have connected an SMR drive to the system.
1. Windows host is able to recognize the SMR drive.
2. On Linux guest :also sees the SMR drive and reports the size of the drive and reports the size of the drive correctly:
sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdc: 13.7 TiB, 15000173281280 bytes, 29297213440 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
3. But when I try to format this drive using dmzadm command, it reports that the drive is not a zoned drive.
vagrant@ubuntu-bionic:~$ sudo dmzadm --format /dev/sdc --force
sdc: Not a zoned block device
Linux OS is not able to see the zones on the SMR drive. Is there any ZAC / ZBC extension we can add to Virtualbox ? or can Virtualbox be used with SMR drives /zoned drives?
Thanks.