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

[kaefert]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1366538 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1366538

I'm suffering from the same problem on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Derivate Mint
17.1) on one notebook of mine with one usb3 disk of mine (other
notebooks running also linux mint 17.1, or other disks: no problem)

[  469.671328] usb 3-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd
[  469.703178] usb 3-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0bc2, idProduct=2332
[  469.703188] usb 3-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[  469.703194] usb 3-1.2: Product: Portable
[  469.703198] usb 3-1.2: Manufacturer: Seagate
[  469.703202] usb 3-1.2: SerialNumber: 2GHH1MNJ
[  469.704221] usb-storage 3-1.2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[  469.705618] scsi8 : usb-storage 3-1.2:1.0
[  470.704997] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Seagate  Portable         SF04 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[  470.705819] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[  471.897734] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] 2930277164 512-byte logical blocks: (1.50 TB/1.36 TiB)
[  471.898187] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
[  471.898190] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 1c 00 00 00
[  471.898622] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[  471.935856]  sdd: sdd1
[  471.989811] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk
[  483.180660] EXT4-fs (sdd1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[  486.391412] end_request: critical target error, dev sdd, sector 1464076336
[  486.391424] Aborting journal on device sdd1-8.
[  486.392350] EXT4-fs error (device sdd1): ext4_put_super:791: Couldn't clean up the journal
[  486.392354] EXT4-fs (sdd1): Remounting filesystem read-only
[  487.741927] end_request: critical target error, dev sdd, sector 0
[  487.741960] JBD2: recovery failed
[  487.741965] EXT4-fs (sdd1): error loading journal
[  516.651367] end_request: critical target error, dev sdd, sector 0
[  516.722480] end_request: critical target error, dev sdd, sector 0

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Title:
  External USB hard drive format fails

Status in gparted package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

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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