[Karmic] Unable to format new unformatted Corsair 16 GB USB drive
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility
I tried to format a new unformated Corsair Flash Voyager 16 GB USB drive in Ubuntu Karmic beta with Palimpsest Disk Utility (gnome-
Error creating partition: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_add_partition: device_
Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=16173236224)
MSDOS_MAGIC found
looking at part 0 (offset 16384, size 16173219840, type 0x85)
Entering MS-DOS extended parser (offset=16384, size=16173219840)
readfrom = 16384
No MSDOS_MAGIC found
Exiting MS-DOS extended parser
looking at part 1 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00)
new part entry
looking at part 2 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00)
new part entry
looking at part 3 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00)
new part entry
Exiting MS-DOS parser
MSDOS partition table detected
containing partition table scheme = 0
got it
Error: Invalid partition table on /dev/sdd -- wrong signature 0.
ped_disk_new() failed
After several attempts I tried to format the drive in Windows 7 to FAT32 (to know if the drive is faulty), which went fine. Windows' formatting tool saw the whole drive as unallocated (no 1 kb unknown partition). After this, Karmic was able to reformat the drive to ext4.
This happened a week ago, and I have updated my system since then (attached system information may not be completely relevant). The system was up to date when the problem occurred.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Oct 17 19:51:28 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Alpha amd64 (20091014.1)
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: gnome-disk-utility 2.28.0+
ProcEnviron:
LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
Confirming some ugly behaviour with a new kingston 16gb stick. Nothing happens but lots of loglines are written to disk. Other and smaller sticks working well.
Description: Ubuntu 9.10 (amd64)
Release: 9.10
[ 2082.591165] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] READ CAPACITY failed DRIVER_ SENSE
[ 2082.591170] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=
[ 2082.591175] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Sense Key : Unit Attention [current]
[ 2082.591180] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Add. Sense: Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed
[ 2082.720035] usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
[ 2083.001286] usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
[ 2083.280035] usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
[ 2083.560030] usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
[ 2083.840031] usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
[ 2084.120027] usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
[ 2084.271231] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 2084.271240] sdd: detected capacity change from 16001036288 to 0
Eric