@Dragon2611 I’m not aware of any progress on this one but haven’t really looked into it any more either.
Linking to a previous post of mine to help others with the context as I know you are already aware of it.
Anyone else know of any progress or more up to date info.
It seems that from:-
that it depends on if the drive’s smr element is drive or host managed and
pointed to a kernel bug re the Seagate Archive 8TB disks.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93581
which relates a mixed experience still.
I’m not convinced of their utility just yet but as I say I haven’t been following it really.