Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility
I tried to format a new unformated Corsair Flash Voyager 16 GB USB drive
in Ubuntu Karmic beta with Palimpsest Disk Utility (gnome-disk-utility),
but the tool wasn't able to handle the task. Palimpsest saw the drive
space as unallocated, except 1 kb (if I remember the size right), which
was shown as unknown partition. When I tried to format the unallocated
space, I got the following error message:
Error creating partition: helper exited with exit code 1: In
part_add_partition: device_file=/dev/sdd, start=17408, size=16173218816,
type=0x83
Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=16173236224)
MSDOS_MAGIC found
looking at part 0 (offset 16384, size 16173219840, type 0x85)
Entering MS-DOS extended parser (offset=16384, size=16173219840)
readfrom = 16384
No MSDOS_MAGIC found
Exiting MS-DOS extended parser
looking at part 1 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00)
new part entry
looking at part 2 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00)
new part entry
looking at part 3 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00)
new part entry
Exiting MS-DOS parser
MSDOS partition table detected
containing partition table scheme = 0
got it
Error: Invalid partition table on /dev/sdd -- wrong signature 0.
ped_disk_new() failed
After several attempts I tried to format the drive in Windows 7 to FAT32
(to know if the drive is faulty), which went fine. Windows' formatting
tool saw the whole drive as unallocated (no 1 kb unknown partition).
After this, Karmic was able to reformat the drive to ext4.
This happened a week ago, and I have updated my system since then
(attached system information may not be completely relevant). The system
was up to date when the problem occurred.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Oct 17 19:51:28 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Alpha amd64 (20091014.1)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-disk-utility 2.28.0+git20091012-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.47-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
** Affects: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
--
[Karmic] Unable to format new unformatted Corsair 16 GB USB drive
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/454107
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in ubuntu.
--
desktop-bugs mailing list
desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
