[wplug] Gparted destroyed my new WD Passport

[Brandon Poyner]

On 3/1/07, Scott F. Kiesling <kiesling at pitt.edu> wrote:
> Tried it, didn't work. Unplugged and tried again. Definition
> of insanity I know, but then:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
> dd: writing to `/dev/sda': No space left on device
> 512409+0 records in
> 512408+0 records out
> 262352896 bytes (262 MB) copied, 3.78296 s, 69.4 MB/s
>
> Great (but is the '262 Mb cause for concern?), so on to fdisk:

I'd say that doesn't sound right.  What does 'hdparm -g /dev/sda' say?

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