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Just a quick question, verify that the drive is, in fact, SATA and not SAS. (Serial ATA vs Serial Attached SCSI) there are supposed to be some level of compatibility, but I don't have any first hand experience troubleshooting. > 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. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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