GParted 0.25.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize

Libparted 3.2
Create Primary Partition #1 (ext3, 119.24 GiB) on /dev/sdb  00:02:45    ( ERROR )

create empty partition  00:00:16    ( SUCCESS )

Discarding device blocks: failed - Input/output error
Creating filesystem with 31258368 4k blocks and 7815168 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 495c08bd-fe1e-4287-8273-d29541964640
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872