Acabou sendo um problema com o cabo SATA.
Comprei um novo Seagate 3TB SATA-II HD. Eu instalei no computador eu mesmo. O programa Disks no Ubuntu reconhece o HD. Quando tento criar uma tabela de partições em Discos, recebo este erro:
Error creating partition table: helper exited with exit code 1: Error calling fsync(2) on /dev/sdb: Input/output error
Aqui está a saída de fdisk -l :
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0005dd31
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 9764863 4881408 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 9766910 976771071 483502081 5 Extended
Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda5 9766912 107421695 48827392 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 107423744 974817279 433696768 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 974819328 976771071 975872 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdc: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc27c4f8f
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 2048 625137344 312567648+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Disk /dev/sdb: 3000.6 GB, 3000592982016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 364801 cylinders, total 5860533168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table
Eu tentei o gparted, mas ele também não. Qualquer ajuda? Este poderia ser um problema com o cabo de dados SATA?