new external drive

[Stephen Partington]

You will need to use the manufacturer disk tools to verify the hardware is
bad. I would still go that route.

On Nov 26, 2016 7:31 AM, "Michael" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> this was the result of badblocks:
>
> Testing with pattern 0x55:   0.00% done, 12:18:18 elapsed.
> (98304/60951342/0 errdone
> ors)
> Reading and comparing: done
>   ors)
> Testing with pattern 0xff:   0.00% done, 12:20:59 elapsed.
> (98304/60951342/0 errdone
> ors)
> Reading and comparing: done
>   ors)
> Testing with pattern 0x00:   0.00% done, 12:23:41 elapsed.
> (98304/60951342/0 errdone
> ors)
> Reading and comparing: done
>   ors)
>
> that is a whole bunch of write errors!
>
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Brien Dieterle <briend at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah I would send it back :-p
>>
>> On Nov 25, 2016 4:37 PM, "Michael" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I would love to use a *nix native file system but I want to be able to
>>> share this between systems. Everytime the thing goes to a new line the
>>> write error is incremented by 1. This is a new disk. It shouldn't do that!
>>> I think I should send it back! What do you guys think?
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Brien Dieterle <briend at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/65349/how-to-interpr
>>>> et-badblocks-output
>>>>
>>>> Sounds like it had a lot of writing errors.  Thing is I'll not sure how
>>>> to deal with it while using NTFS
>>>>
>>>> http://linux.bigresource.com/General-NTFS-marking-sectors-ba
>>>> d--aLwrEyk32.html
>>>>
>>>> If you use ext3 or ext4 you can check for and mark bad blocks during
>>>> format with the -c option.  mkfs.ext4 -c /dev/sdd1
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 25, 2016 1:59 PM, "Michael" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I was wondering:
>>>>> The print out on the terminal reads:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1973729 done, 3:49:08 elapsed. (0/7649/0 errors)
>>>>>
>>>>> what does "(0/7649/0 errors)" mean?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm trying to run 'badblocks' but each time I run it get the same
>>>>>>  thing.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ sudo badblocks -b 4096 -c 98304 -p 0 -w -s /media/bmike1/NexStar
>>>>>> badblocks: invalid starting block (0): must be less than 0
>>>>>> .
>>>>>> .
>>>>>> .
>>>>>> I just googled the error and find:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Apparently this is Linux-speak for "This program needs the name of a
>>>>>> device file, and the programmer was too lazy to have it detect that you
>>>>>> supplied the name of the mount point instead".-
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How do I discover the device as opposed to the mount point?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Brien Dieterle <briend at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Almost looks like bad sectors. Might want to try badblocks
>>>>>>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/badblocks
>>>>>>> Maybe try formatting it ext4
>>>>>>> Maybe try another USB port and cable
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Nov 24, 2016 1:21 PM, "Michael" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I really appreciate the help.... It errored out though. Here is
>>>>>>>> what gparted reported:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> *Create Primary Partition #1 (ntfs, 232.88 GiB) on /dev/sdd*  00:00:37    (
>>>>>>>> ERROR )
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> create empty partition  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> *path: /dev/sdd1start: 2048end: 488396799size: 488394752 (232.88
>>>>>>>> GiB)*
>>>>>>>> clear old file system signatures in /dev/sdd1  00:00:00    (
>>>>>>>> SUCCESS )
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> write 68.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 0  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
>>>>>>>> write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 67108864  00:00:00    (
>>>>>>>> SUCCESS )
>>>>>>>> write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 250058108928  00:00:00    (
>>>>>>>> SUCCESS )
>>>>>>>> flush operating system cache of /dev/sdd  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
>>>>>>>> set partition type on /dev/sdd1  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> *new partition type: ntfs*
>>>>>>>> create new ntfs file system  00:00:37    ( ERROR )
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> *mkntfs -Q -v -L "NexStar" /dev/sdd1*
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> *Cluster size has been automatically set to 4096 bytes.Creating
>>>>>>>> NTFS volume structures.Creating root directory (mft record 5)Creating $MFT
>>>>>>>> (mft record 0)Creating $MFTMirr (mft record 1)Creating $LogFile (mft record
>>>>>>>> 2)Creating $AttrDef (mft record 4)Creating $Bitmap (mft record 6)Creating
>>>>>>>> $Boot (mft record 7)Creating backup boot sector.Creating $Volume (mft
>>>>>>>> record 3)Creating $BadClus (mft record 8)Creating $Secure (mft record
>>>>>>>> 9)Creating $UpCase (mft record 0xa)Creating $Extend (mft record 11)Creating
>>>>>>>> system file (mft record 0xc)Creating system file (mft record 0xd)Creating
>>>>>>>> system file (mft record 0xe)Creating system file (mft record 0xf)Creating
>>>>>>>> $Quota (mft record 24)Creating $ObjId (mft record 25)Creating $Reparse (mft
>>>>>>>> record 26)Syncing root directory index record.Syncing $Bitmap.Syncing
>>>>>>>> $MFT.Updating $MFTMirr.Syncing device.*
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> *Failed to sync device /dev/sdd1: Input/output errorSyncing device.
>>>>>>>> FAILED*
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Stephen Partington <
>>>>>>>> cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Get gparted and use it to take a look. Lots of USB drives have
>>>>>>>>> some wonky trick they use.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Nov 24, 2016 12:04 PM, "Michael" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I got a problem. This new drive won't format. Linux saw it when I
>>>>>>>>>> first plugged it in. I then tried copying some files to it which resulted
>>>>>>>>>> in an error appearing after 5-10 minutes telling me to open windows and run
>>>>>>>>>> 'chkdsk \f' on the device. Then I plugged it into windows10 and couldn't
>>>>>>>>>> figure out how to open a terminal so I decided to format it. But it
>>>>>>>>>> wouldn't format. When I attempt to it flashes twice a second for a little
>>>>>>>>>> then a long flash then again quickly. So I figured I would attempt the
>>>>>>>>>> format with Linux but Linux doesn't see the drive now so no formatting with
>>>>>>>>>> it. Can someone help?
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