If you don't have data you need on that Elite 9, do a full low-level
format of the drive. The 2068-byte-sector mode appears to be a "undocumented"
feature of Elite 9 which Seagate won't admit to, and non-power-of-2
sectors isn't exactly easy to support in Linux (understatement.)
However, the kernel shouldn't panic... it probably should set the disk
size to 0 in its tables, to allow the disk to be opened only to do a
format ioctl.
-hpa
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