On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:24:49 +0200, Axel Berger 
declaimed the following:

>Adrian wrote:
>> Having spoken to Samsung, it seems that the disk is not compatible with
>> a Pi.  When asked if they had one that was, they were unable to answer.
>
>That's utter rubbish. A disk does not need to be "compatible" with
>anything except its defined and standardised interface, in this case
>presumably SATA. It's the same with websites not "supporting" certain
>browsers. All a site needs to do is offer valid and standards-compliant
>code -- few do.
>
>So in your case one of the two is broken and has not implemented the
>interface correctly. I'd like to know, which is it, the Pi or the
>Samsung? If it should be the Pi, then the fact that many other disks are
>error-tolerant and work regardless is neither here not there. A broken
>interface is broken and needs mending, regardless of how well it seems
>to work under most circumstances.

 To my knowledge, the R-Pi does not have a native SATA port. That means
somewhere between the R-Pi and the drive is a USBSATA conversion circuit.
That adds a third point for compatibility problems. {And possibly the
Samsung rep just looked up R-Pi specs, saw it has no SATA port, and decreed
the drive incompatible}


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