can't reformat an external drive
Just received a 30 TB (yes, TB) external ssd drive that seems to be MS formatted. It fails to erase with Disk Utility giving a disk error of -69854. I've run diskutil in Terminal many ways and always encounter a roadblock. For ex, no mount point, must own drive, and others I've coped with these but no success.
The 30 TB drives seems to be pretty new on the market, sold by Toshiba and ydigos.com, a Chinese sales point. Mac support came up with nothing but I didn't't ask for a Sr Tech.
BTW, failures are he same on a Mac mini running 13.2.1. Asdvice gratefully received.
Running 13.3.1 on a Mac Air.
MacBook Air, macOS 13.3