[wplug] Gparted destroyed my new WD Passport

[Scott F. Kiesling]

Well, I tried dd again and it has been chuggin' away for a
couple of hours, which might be a good sign. After all, it
is a 60Gb drive. 

FWIW, here's the hdparm output:

/dev/sda:
 geometry     = 19077/64/32, sectors = 39070081, start = 0

 SFK

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 04:21:14PM -0500, Brandon Poyner wrote:
> From: Brandon Poyner <bpoyner at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:21:14 -0500
> To: General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
> Subject: Re: [wplug] Gparted destroyed my new WD Passport
> 
> 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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