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



I ran the smartctl commands that Jerry Natowitz suggested using the
Linux box (no enclosure). Time to get a RMA.

 ~ 8% sudo smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdc
                ubuntu
[sudo] password for doug:
smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining
LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed: read failure       90%        94
      60961036



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