SSD Drive Problem


I have a new WD Blue 1TB ssd hard drive that doesn't want to get formatted or mounted. When I attach the drive via USB I get an error message of:
Unable to Mount 1.0 Tb volume
An operation is already pending

Eventually I get:
Unable to Mount 1.0 Tb volume
timeout was reached

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T570 running Linux Mint 22.1 Xia base. "GParted" and "Disks" don't see the drive. Is there something I can do to access the disc or is it toast?
in reply to who

So far it is showing

usb 2-4: new SuperSpeed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd
[211819.412449] usb 2-4: New USB device found, idVendor=2537, idProduct=1068, bcdDevice= 1.00
[211819.412468] usb 2-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[211819.412477] usb 2-4: Product: NS1068
[211819.412484] usb 2-4: Manufacturer: Norelsys
[211819.412491] usb 2-4: SerialNumber: 0123456789ABCDE
[211819.415262] usb-storage 2-4:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[211819.415608] usb-storage 2-4:1.0: Quirks match for vid 2537 pid 1068: 800000
[211819.415722] scsi host1: usb-storage 2-4:1.0
[211821.975537] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WD Blue SA510 2. 0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[211821.976781] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[211821.985294] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/932 GiB)
[211821.985686] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[211821.985704] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[211821.986069] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[211822.033052] sdb: sdb1
[211822.034239] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[211851.555550] usb 2-4: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd
[211877.091031] usb 2-4: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd
[211902.626842] usb 2-4: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd

in reply to floppingfish

Some more
                          usb 2-4: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd

[211953.700655] usb 2-4: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd
[211979.236790] usb 2-4: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd
[211979.249917] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK cmd_age=152s
[211979.249940] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 CDB: Write(10) 2a 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 08 00
[211979.249950] blk_print_req_error: 752 callbacks suppressed
[211979.249959] I/O error, dev sdb, sector 2048 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x800 phys_seg 1 prio class 0
[211979.249982] buffer_io_error: 21278 callbacks suppressed
[211979.249988] Buffer I/O error on dev sdb1, logical block 0, lost async page write
[212004.768420] usb 2-4: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd
[212030.306531] usb 2-4: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd