Comment 5 for bug 454107

Same problem on my brand new USB LaCie LittleDisc 500GB. Cannot format the 500GB to anything, "...helper exited with exit code 1...MS-DOS parser."

It already has a 10MB FAT32 partition with some LaCie stuff on, when trying to delete it I get this full error message:

Error erasing: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_del_partition: device_file=/dev/sdc, offset=374063616
Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=500107862016)
read failed (Input/output error)
Exiting MS-DOS parser
Entering Apple parser
read failed (Input/output error)
Leaving Apple parser
No known partition table found
got it

got disk
got partition - part->type=4
refusing to delete a protected partition

And this is when running sudo palimpsest.

Any workaround?

br,
Jens