I just bought a WD 1TB Caviar Blue drive, and a Bytecc HD-35SU enclosure for it. Snapped the drive in, went to plug it in on my laptop, nothing happened. I figured that probably meant I needed to format it, so I tried to use fdisk
. The new drive isn't listed. So I looked at dmesg
, and I see this:
[ 119.764054] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
[ 120.265826] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[ 120.265933] usb-storage 1-1:1.0: Quirks match for vid 152d pid 2329: 8020
[ 120.265958] scsi6 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0
[ 120.266153] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 120.266156] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 121.306221] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS
[ 121.307330] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[ 121.390676] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
[ 121.391151] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] 72057594037927936 512-byte logical blocks: (0 B/0 B)
[ 121.391896] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[ 121.391901] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 28 00 00 00
[ 121.391907] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 121.393159] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
[ 121.394280] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 121.394290] sdc: unknown partition table
[ 121.395383] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
[ 121.396508] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 121.396513] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
I don't particularly know what that all means, but what concerns me is this line:
[ 121.391151] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] 72057594037927936 512-byte logical blocks: (0 B/0 B)
That doesn't even make sense, right? Could it be because it is unformatted and had no partition table? However, I can't use fdisk
to do any of that, because it says that it cannot read /dev/sdc...
Is my brand-new drive fried?