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    Thank you for your tips! I checked with another cable with no luck, it cannot be the compuer or the cable as I tested with a cable that worked with another drive. Commented Sep 30, 2012 at 17:44
  • Thanks. after reading through this thread, im convinced that i have bad hard drives, due to fed-ex/ups bad handling most likely. a box of 8 were shipped to my house. im getting I/O and async page read errors, and same gdisk symptoms as OP. yeppers!! Crap. I have to send them back. Commented Aug 16, 2021 at 1:45
  • ill have to admit, im still on the fence that this isnt just a locked hard drive on my hands. Articles like this point out how to fix these types of symptoms apple.stackexchange.com/questions/250602/… and bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=199183 to some extent. Commented Aug 16, 2021 at 19:18