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Error message from GParted, means what?

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I've been getting a strange error messages when looking at some 8 
GB flash drives from different manufacturers purchased months apart.

There is a title bar at top saying "Libparted Warning (as superuser).
The body of the message box has:
   1. an Exclamation point surrounded by orange and yellow triangle.
   2. a message text saying "The driver descriptor says the 
physical block
      size is 2048 bytes, but Linux says it is 512 bytes.
   3. There are two buttons present.
      One saying "Cancel"
      The other saying "Ignore"

On today's drive:
   1. I clicked "Cancel" then dismissed several boxes the gist of 
whose messages
      was that what I had started had not been done.
   2. The entire drive is shown as "allocated".
   3. Clicking on "New" yields message saying "No partition table 
found ..."
   4.I attempt to create partition table and get the "block 
sector size" message.
   5. Chose "ignore"
   6. Apparently then able to create a single 8 GB partition.

Any suggestions as to the problem's origin? I've no way to 
establish the history of the drive.

Any reason to expect future problems?

TIA

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Error message from GParted, means what? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-26 23:50 +0100
  Re: Error message from GParted, means what? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-11-27 10:20 +0100
    Re: Error message from GParted, means what? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-27 13:10 +0100
      Re: before first use of a brand new flash drive (was: Error message  from GParted...) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-11-27 17:10 +0100
        Re: before first use of a brand new flash drive Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-27 18:30 +0100
          Re: before first use of a brand new flash drive Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2016-11-27 20:50 +0100
            Re: before first use of a brand new flash drive Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2016-11-27 21:10 +0100
              Re: before first use of a brand new flash drive rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-11-28 00:20 +0100
                Re: before first use of a brand new flash drive Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2016-11-28 01:20 +0100
                Re: before first use of a brand new flash drive Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2016-11-28 10:30 +0100
              Re: Congratulations samrmn , Your Roof is Covered. Thank You!Wdw9 Sam Rahmani <samrmn@gmail.com> - 2016-11-30 15:00 +0100

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