I got the hard drive working. I tried different SAS HBA cards. With an old LSI card i could talk to the drive. When i ran smartctl i noticed a line “Formatted with type 2 protection”. That means the drive is formatted with 8 extra bytes for each block. I says block size 4096, but is not true. The 8 bytes should be removed by some SAS card before the operating system sees the data. It confused Linux and Windows. After formatting the drive with sg_format -F /dev/sda it looks OK.
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