[Discuss] Unable to partition a new drive = death?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

In the past, WD has been very good at replacing drives. I would suggest
that you call WD, and see if you can get it replaced. One of the drives
I got (very cheap) had some issues, but finally settled down after I ran
a complete bad block scan (more than once). I have not had an issue
since. I think the phone call to WD should be the first thing you do. In
the past, they would send out a replacement with instructions to send
the bad drive back under an RMA number by a certain time.

On 12/30/2011 11:58 PM, Doug wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I have been trying to format a Western Digital 2TB drive purchased
> from TigerDirect in March of this year. I have yet to use it to do
> anything, jobs, family and research being what they are. I have a SATA
> enclosure, but the MacOS disk utility on 2 machines refused to do
> anything with it. I decided to hook it up directly to a linux box. One
> red cable is the power, another looks like data, both have those
> connectors shaped like an L.
>
> The linux machine complained bitterly about this hard drive at boot
> time, over 382 lines of complaints, many like this:
>
> [ 3491.211049] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb]  Result: hostbyte=DID_OK
> driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
> [ 3491.211052] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb]  Sense Key : Aborted Command
> [current] [descriptor]
> [ 3491.211067] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb]  Add. Sense: No additional sense information
> [ 3491.211070] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
> [ 3491.211076] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
> [ 3491.211078] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
> [ 3491.450290] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb]  Result: hostbyte=DID_OK
> driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
> [ 3491.450293] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb]  Sense Key : Aborted Command
> [current] [descriptor]
> [ 3491.450308] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb]  Add. Sense: No additional sense information
> [ 3491.450311] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
> [ 3491.450317] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
>
> This is what gparted reports:
>
> Model: ATA WDC WD20EADS-00S
> Size: 1.82 tiB
> Path: /dev/sdb
>
> Parition table: unrecognized
> Heads: 255
> Sectors/track: 63
> Cylinders: 243201
> Total sectors: 3907029168
> Sector size: 512
>
> The first step is to go under the Device and pick out
> Create Partition Table
>
> It reports this:
> /dev/sdb: unrecognised disk label
> Input/output error during read on /dev/sdb
> Input/output error during read on /dev/sdb
> Input/output error during write on /dev/sdb
> Error fsyncing/closing /dev/sdb: Input/output error
>
> Not so good.
>
> Am I missing something, or is this drive Dead On Arrival + 8 months?
> Doug
>
> Not related, but I will be doing my MIT IAP course again:
> http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-a443.html
> Same topics, but this time I have to report on the errors in my work.
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