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  1. Bug #1302762
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 1302762

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cliff tinker (cliff5555) wrote :

the fault appears to be caused by my hitachi external 2tb drive.as soon as i powered off the drive gparted is working normally again.
if this drive is running when the system boots it reports bad secor size (i have tried formating this drive in different filesystem's but it seems not to cure the problem. grub also reports this whenever i run update-grub :
merlin@gallahad:~$ sudo update-grub
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-23-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-23-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-22-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-22-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-3-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-3-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.elf
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdf.
ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdf.
ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdf.
ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdf.
ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdf.
ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdf.
ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdf.
grub-probe: error: unknown filesystem.
done
merlin@gallahad:~$