[SOLVED] Creating a filesystem on a new HD

john_erlandsson · 10-25-2010, 02:06 PM

Hi!

I am helping a friend installing surveillance cameras on his farm.
He bought a Kguard DVR and a 2TB WD harddrive (SATA).

First I tied formatting it from the DVR itself, but it failed.
I then connected it to my computer using an USB2SATA connector, and tried formatting it with gparted. That failed with the message: "No partition table found on device /dev/sdd"
When trying to create a msdos or gtp partition table it performs the action without errors, but it doesn't save the changes.

Same thing when using parted. When trying to create a msdos or gtp table (or label) it doesn't complain, but when i try to create a partition or simply use the print command it gives me the error "unrecognized disk label".

I allso tried fdisk, but it told me to use parted instead due to the large size of the disk.

I googled this issue alot, and found a couple of forum threads concerning similar issues, but nothing that really helped.

Can anyone give me some hints?

//John

jefro · 10-25-2010, 03:12 PM

Might be that you need to go to guid.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/fdisk-...eater-2tb.html

john_erlandsson · 10-25-2010, 03:43 PM

Ok... I'll check the kernel config

john_erlandsson · 10-25-2010, 04:40 PM

CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y

Must be something else

if i follow the guide it gives me the same as before

Quote:

$ sudo parted /dev/sdd
GNU Parted 2.1
Using /dev/sdd
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) mklabel gpt
(parted) mkpart primary 0 2001G
Error: /dev/sdd: unrecognised disk label
(parted) print
Error: /dev/sdd: unrecognised disk label
(parted)

I get the same error even if i try to make smaller partitions...

jefro · 10-25-2010, 07:17 PM

Wonder if the drive is supported in this system or some issue with it?

Try maybe the OEM diags for the hard drive.

john_erlandsson · 10-26-2010, 04:27 AM

Ok... I am not familiar with any diagnostics tool, so i might need you to elaborate.
What are OEM diags? Are they a part of some fedora package?

Tried smart which gave me the output:

Quote:

sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdd
smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0
Serial Number: [No Information Found]
Firmware Version: [No Information Found]
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 1
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Tue Oct 26 11:22:55 2010 CEST
SMART is only available in ATA Version 3 Revision 3 or greater.
We will try to proceed in spite of this.
SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 82-83 don't show if SMART supported.
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.

//John

john_erlandsson · 10-26-2010, 04:27 AM

the command: sudo badblocks -n -v prints out every block ont the drive...

michaelk · 10-26-2010, 04:36 AM

What is the model number of the DVR? I am supprised that the DVR itself fails to format the drive. As suggested there might be something wrong with the drive. BTW you can download WD diagnostics from their website.

OEM - Original Equipment Manufacture.

john_erlandsson · 10-26-2010, 04:42 AM

It is from KGUARD security and the model is: KG-SHA104.

It is supposed to be able to handle up to 2TB hard drives.

gdejonge · 10-26-2010, 05:19 AM

I knew there was something with the WD EARS drives. Did some reading. Turns out the EARS drives are first generation 4k sector drives. It's should have a jumper that selects 512/4096 byte sectors. Could you check in what position the jumper is.

michaelk · 10-26-2010, 06:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gdejonge

I knew there was something with the WD EARS drives. Did some reading. Turns out the EARS drives are first generation 4k sector drives. It's should have a jumper that selects 512/4096 byte sectors. Could you check in what position the jumper is.

Good point...

john_erlandsson · 10-28-2010, 03:06 AM

The drive was shipped without a jumper.

The configurations is:

7-8, Windows XP, Single partition
5-6, Lower transfer speed
1-2, Enable SSC

I am beginning to suspect that there is something wrong with the drive.

My workstation halted with a HD error when booting up.

Is there a Fedora tool to check integrity?

//John

jefro · 10-28-2010, 06:57 PM

I'd boot to the OEM diags. Western Digital ought to have them on their site.

john_erlandsson · 12-28-2010, 04:26 AM

Returned the drive and got a new one.

//John