KenMacD / wdpassport-utils. Pull requests 2. Projects 0 Insights Dismiss. Disclaimer: This is an independent project attempting to get a Western Digital My Passport drive to work in Linux. It is in no way sponsored by or connected with Western Digital. My research is based around sending SCSI commands to the drive to unlock it. Is it possible to boot Mac using external hard disk having Linux OS? Is the WD My Passport portable SSD compatible with Android? How do I recover data from WD my passport hard disk when it is not detected? Seagate or WD, which hard disk is better? Ask New Question.

Product: WD My Passport Ultra 1TB Operating Systems: Mac & Linux I recently used my WD Passport for a linux system. I formatted this drive in linux to ext4. Now I want to use this drive for my mac again but am having problems formatting this drive using disk utility to hfs. For some reason I can read/write and format this drive fine on linux. Also when viewing this drive in Disk Utility there are multiple instances of this drive. Unmounting disk Creating the partition map Waiting for partitions to activate Formatting disk5s1 as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with name Untitled newfs_hfs: WriteBuffer: pwrite(3, 0x104ae4000, 1048576, 331354112): Input/output error newfs_hfs: write (sector 647176): Invalid argument Mounting disk Could not mount disk5s1 after erase EDIT #1 Palaeologus helped me find a solution to formatting the drive. Sudo su diskutil list cat /dev/random > /dev/diskX Look for the drive and replace X with drive number.

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Then format drive as FAT. Diskutil eraseVolume ExFAT MyName diskX Once again replace X with disk number. The drive is now assessable.

Download java for os x sierra. However I can only format the drive to FAT and not JHFS, formatting to JHFS returns the same error as described at the top of the post.