Re: Cant format 1TB USB drive ?

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On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 09:59 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 11:29 -0400, Peter A wrote:
> 
> > What model drive is it?
> 
> Western Digital Scorpion Blue  WD10TPVT   "Advanced Format Drive"

This is one of those new drives with a native 4K block size. It uses
firmware to emulate 512 byte blocks. Could that firmware be interfering
with dd and mkfs?

--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights, IL
  

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