Internal harddive help - Faulty? (linux OS)

[Dink]

I'm trying to build my nas pc and i'm struggling with one of the HDD's

I've formatted the drive and tried to partition it to 2 1TB partitions (it's a wd wd20ears)

but every time it fails:dapprove:

tried to erase the MBR but that didn't help

anyone know what could be wrong? or is it just a dud that needs returning?

 

[Revels]

Have you got another computer/caddy you can use to test it?

 

[ncoppen]

After some research, It seems that it's a common issue with Ubuntu / Linux and wd20ears.

Have you tried looking at the format? If it's GUID then you may want to try reformatting the drive as MBR. There are some reports that this solves the issue of not being able to partition.

 

[Dink]

Have you got another computer/caddy you can use to test it?

not running winblows:dapprove: and haven't got a 3.5" caddy to plug into my laptop.

the other drive (same model) is working fine

 

[ncoppen]

Is this drive that you're trying to format that doesn't work your primary drive and the other that does a secondary?

EDIT: Found some information that may be of use to you. It appears that the Ears drives use an advanced formatting and you need to align the drives. Not 100% sure if it will fix the partitoning issue but it can't hurt to get better speed from your drives.

See here for link on how to do it: http://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...advanced-format-hard-drives-792046/page2.html

 

[Dink]

the one i am trying to format is /dev/sda and the other /dev/sdb

sdb is has MBR "formatting" and ext4 partitions and is working spot on

i managed to get some partitions on the drive and manged to get one 88gb partition but can't get another after that.

also when if fails it boots it off the list of drives and won't come back till i restart

 

[Dink]

i'm giving it

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M

to see it that does anything but looks like it will take a while on a 2TB drive lol