Quoting Linuxguy123 <linuxguy...@gmail.com>:
>
> I kinda doubt its a brick.
>
> I re partitioned it with one less cylinder as follows.
>
[snip]
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>
> Then I tried formatting it.
>
> # mkfs -text4 /dev/sdc1
> mke2fs 1.41.10 (10-Feb-2009)
> Filesystem label=
> OS type: Linux
> Block size=4096 (log=2)
> Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
> Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
> 61054976 inodes, 244187992 blocks
> 12209399 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
> First data block=0
> Maximum filesystem blocks=0
> 7453 block groups
> 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
> 8192 inodes per group
> Superblock backups stored on blocks:
> 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632,
> 2654208,
> 4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616,
> 78675968,
> 102400000, 214990848
>
> Writing inode tables: done
> ext2fs_mkdir: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short
> read while creating root dir
>
> ==============================================================================
>
> This operation threw a kernel error:
>
> Package: kernel
> Latest Crash: Sun 03 Oct 2010 09:13:56 AM
> Command: not_applicable
> Reason: WARNING: at fs/fs-writeback.c:581 writeback_inodes_wb
> +0x1ad/0x35b()
> Comment: None
> Bug Reports:
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686.PAE #1 SMP Wed Sep 15
> 03:27:15 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> What now ?
>
Where'd you get this drive? Was it from a reputable vendor? I have
purchased MP3 players off ebay that claim to be like 2 Gig and are
really only 1 gig, etc. Try creating and formatting a 500 gig
partition and see if that works.
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