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 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines