erase failed with disk utility on external drive

I just bought a Seagate external drive 1 tb. When I try to use Disk Utility to erase the drive, because it was formatted with a different format than Apple uses, the operation to erase failed, giving this error, "POSIX reports: The operation couldn't be completed. Invalid argument.: (22)"

What needs to be done for me to be able to erase this drive?