Sarcastic? No. Sarcasm is designed to wound (the flesh). It ain't my style, but irony or even gentle joshing is. Can you translate C or Pascal into English on the fly?
Again, you can get at a blank drive only if you can mount it and address it from an active System. From that all else flows.
Any kind of networking needs a sensate receiver or sender at one end, and a ditto receiver or sender at the other end. Rather like the human condition.
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