External SSD failed to format

[wsbeaton]

Creating a bug report/issue

Details:

• Date | Mon Oct 2 03:29:51 CDT 2023
• DietPi version | v8.22.3 (MichaIng/master)
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• Hardware | RPi 4 Model B (aarch64) (ID=4)
• Kernel version | Linux DietPi 6.1.21-v8+ #1642 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 3 17:24:16 BST 2023 aarch64 GNU/Linux
• Distro | bookworm (ID=7,RASPBIAN=0)
• Command | mkfs.fat -I /dev/sda1
• Exit code | 1
• Software title | DietPi-Drive_Manager

  Steps to reproduce:

  1. Mount 256GB external hard drive
  2. Open dietpi-drive_manager
  3. Format as FAT32

     Expected behaviour:

• Disk is formatted in FAT32

  Actual behaviour:

• Format failed. Last 4 lines:
• [ INFO ] DietPi-Drive_Manager | Creating new gpt partition table [ OK ] DietPi-Drive_Manager | parted -s /dev/sda mklabel gpt [ OK ] DietPi-Drive_Manager | parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary 0% 100% [FAILED] DietPi-Drive_Manager | mkfs.fat -I /dev/sda1

  Extra details:

• Disk was already formatted in FAT32. I was only trying different things in this new OS.
• ...

  Additional logs:

  mkfs.fat: unable to open /dev/sda1: No such file or directory

[MichaIng]

Hmm, is the drive itself still present when you exit the script from there?

lsblk

Possibly it got disconnected due to insufficient power or so. Please also check for kernel errors:

dmesg -l 0,1,2,3