[Bug 1368299] Re: External USB hard drive format fails

[Curtis Gedak]

Error messages such as:

   Error fsyncing/closing /dev/sdb: Remote I/O error
   Remote I/O error during write on /dev/sdb

often imply a hardware problem.  This can be as simple as a loose cable,
all the way up to a failing hard drive.

If the drive supports smart monitoring, you can use the graphical
application "gsmartcontrol" to check on the health of the disk device.

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Title:
  External USB hard drive format fails

Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Trying to reformat Maxtor USB external hard drive.  This was formated with an encrypted partition, but since I was having trouble accessing that I thought I would start over clean.
  When running gparted there are numorous errors but it get to the end and says successfully completed.  I tried GPT and DOS with an ext4 partition.  Same result either way.
  Here is a sampling of the errors I see when gparted is running:
  (gpartedbin:3879): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 7 was not found when attempting to remove it
  Error fsyncing/closing /dev/sdb: Remote I/O error
  Remote I/O error during write on /dev/sdb

  I mounted the file system with this line in fstab:
  /dev/sdb1                                  /media/Maxtor1  ext4 defaults
  sudo mount /dev/sdb1

  This is the tail of dmesg
  [ 8875.215909] end_request: critical target error, dev sdb, sector 0
  [ 8965.547040] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
  [ 8968.170471] end_request: critical target error, dev sdb, sector 0
  [ 8970.635560] end_request: critical target error, dev sdb, sector 96733216
  [ 8970.635604] Aborting journal on device sdb1-8.
  [ 8971.192909] EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_journal_check_start:56: Detected aborted journal
  [ 8971.192916] EXT4-fs (sdb1): Remounting filesystem read-only

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: gparted 0.18.0-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-35.62-generic 3.13.11.6
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-35-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3
  Architecture: i386
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Thu Sep 11 09:23:40 2014
  SourcePackage: gparted
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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