I am attempting to make use of a 1TB exhausting disk in an USB enclosure with a M1 Mac Mini operating macOS 14.4.1 with a purpose to use it with Time Machine which, AFAICS, insists on utilizing APFS. Utilizing Disk Utility to format the disk as HFS+ (or ExFAT) works simply effective however attempting to create an APFS partition leads to the identical output as I see when operating diskutil eraseDisk APFS from the terminal:
# diskutil eraseDisk -noEFI APFS Myname /dev/disk4
Began erase on disk4
Unmounting disk
Creating the partition map
Ready for partitions to activate
Formatting disk4s1 as APFS with identify Myname
tx_flush:1182: rdisk4s1 xid 1 sync/barrier failed: 5
tx_mgr_free_tx:197: rdisk4s1 Trash unfinished pending tx, xid vary = 0x1 - 0x1
newfs_apfs: unable to format /dev/disk4s1: Enter/output error
failed to complete first transaction: 5 - Enter/output error
Mounting disk
Couldn't mount disk4s1 after erase
Error: -69832: File system formatter failed
I’ve tried this with 2 completely different disks, considered one of which I checked utilizing badblocks -w on a Linux system and did not discover any issues on it after 24 hours of scanning it. Additionally, the identical command with JHFS+ as an alternative of APFS works simply effective, so I do not suppose it is actually an I/O error, however I don’t know what might it’s.
Any thought about how can I handle to create an APFS partition on this disk or, alternatively, persuade Time Machine to not attempt to reformat it after I initialized it like this:
# diskutil listing /dev/disk4
/dev/disk4 (exterior, bodily):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk4
1: Apple_HFS Myname 1.0 TB disk4s1
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