Hi,
I have being trying to revive my wife's old work laptop which had windows on it. I booted into a Debian Live USB and after many attempts and having to run the dd command to wipe the drive I was able to manage to get it installed.
So then I decided I'd like to give Manjaro KDE a go but have not been able to get it to work following the same steps.
When I get to the point of creating the partitions the install fails.
If I run GParted and try to create a partition table I get "Input/output error during write on /dev/sta
If I run sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M It seems to run to completion but same result if I try to run GParted.
I tried to follow the threads about removing security on the disk but no luck.
sudo hdparm --user-master u --security-erase foo /dev/sda gives:
security_password: "foo"
/dev/sda: Issuing SECURITY_ERASE command, password="foo", user=user SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 04 51 40 00 21 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 04 51 40 01 21 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
sudo hdparm -I /dev/sda gives:
/dev/sda:
ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: ST320LT014-9YK142 Serial Number: W0Q3QFSC Firmware Revision: 0001DEM7 Transport: Serial Standards: Used: unknown (minor revision code 0x0029) Supported: 8 7 6 5 Likely used: 8 Configuration: Logical max current cylinders 16383 16383 heads 16 16 sectors/track 63 63 -- CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064 LBA user addressable sectors: 268435455 LBA48 user addressable sectors: 625142448 Logical Sector size: 512 bytes Physical Sector size: 4096 bytes Logical Sector-0 offset: 0 bytes device size with M = 1024*1024: 305245 MBytes device size with M = 1000*1000: 320072 MBytes (320 GB) cache/buffer size = 16384 KBytes Nominal Media Rotation Rate: 7200 Capabilities: LBA, IORDY(can be disabled) Queue depth: 32 Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 1 Current = 1 Advanced power management level: 254 Recommended acoustic management value: 208, current value: 0 DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns Commands/features: Enabled Supported: * SMART feature set Security Mode feature set * Power Management feature set * Write cache * Look-ahead * Host Protected Area feature set * WRITE_BUFFER command * READ_BUFFER command * NOP cmd * DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE * Advanced Power Management feature set SET_MAX security extension * 48-bit Address feature set * Device Configuration Overlay feature set * Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE * FLUSH_CACHE_EXT * SMART error logging * SMART self-test * General Purpose Logging feature set * WRITE_{DMA|MULTIPLE}_FUA_EXT * WRITE_DMA_QUEUED_FUA_EXT * 64-bit World wide name * IDLE_IMMEDIATE with UNLOAD Write-Read-Verify feature set * WRITE_UNCORRECTABLE_EXT command * {READ,WRITE}_DMA_EXT_GPL commands * Segmented DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE * Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s) * Gen2 signaling speed (3.0Gb/s) * Native Command Queueing (NCQ) * Host-initiated interface power management * Phy event counters * Idle-Unload when NCQ is active * Device-initiated interface power management * Software settings preservation * SMART Command Transport (SCT) feature set * SCT Read/Write Long (AC1), obsolete * SCT Write Same (AC2) * SCT Error Recovery Control (AC3) * SCT Features Control (AC4) * SCT Data Tables (AC5) unknown 206[12] (vendor specific) unknown 206[13] (vendor specific) * reserved 69[4] Security: Master password revision code = 65534 supported not enabled not locked not frozen not expired: security count supported: enhanced erase 60min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 2min for ENHANCED SECURITY ERASE UNIT. Logical Unit WWN Device Identifier: 5000c500491cb650 NAA : 5 IEEE OUI : 000c50 Unique ID : 0491cb650 Checksum: correct
As you may be able to tell I'm not a competent Linux user so if you could give any help that would be great.
Thanks
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