new external drive

[Michael]

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
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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
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> On Nov 24, 2016 1:21 PM, "Michael" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I really appreciate the help.... It errored out though. Here is what
>> gparted reported:
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>> *Create Primary Partition #1 (ntfs, 232.88 GiB) on /dev/sdd*  00:00:37    (
>> ERROR )
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>> create empty partition  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
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>> *path: /dev/sdd1start: 2048end: 488396799size: 488394752 (232.88 GiB)*
>> clear old file system signatures in /dev/sdd1  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
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>> 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 )
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>> *new partition type: ntfs*
>> create new ntfs file system  00:00:37    ( ERROR )
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>> *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.*
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>> *Failed to sync device /dev/sdd1: Input/output errorSyncing device.
>> FAILED*
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>> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
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>>> Get gparted and use it to take a look. Lots of USB drives have some
>>> wonky trick they use.
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>>> On Nov 24, 2016 12:04 PM, "Michael" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
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>>>> 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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