[vjmcdonnell]

I got a new Seagate 3tb drive and can't get it to show up on Ubuntu.
It shows perfectly with windows.
I can see it in disk utility but when I try to create a partition table I keep getting an error.
I even tried to partition it with windows to two smaller section but Ubuntu doesn't see it. Says the drive is unknown.

Anyone else find a solution.

It's a Zotac ion md by the way.

[vjmcdonnell]

this is the error im getting

Error creating partition table: helper exited with exit code 1: Error calling fsync(2) on /dev/sdb: Input/output error

HELP

[john.cord]

USB Harddrive? I got a Seagate Go Flex 3TB Drive and it was working out of the Box on my Sapphire Edge HD Nettop. How are you mounting the drive? I use a udev rule

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...#pid929846 (Color Tags must be deleted, new forum do not allow color tags in a code tag).

[.:B:.]

Make sure you use gptfdisk to format the drive, not the regular fdisk.

Parted should support GPT as well, but gptfdisk will do a lot of the legwork for you (don't know if parted does). I believe you can use the legacy MBR layout if you were to use more than one partition (and none bigger than 2 TiB).

[vjmcdonnell]

Ended up just using the 3tb as a backup drive and that should keep me going till I can afford a server.

Thanks for the help.

[john.cord]

ok but i told you that it is working for me... out of the box