Setting up a external hard drive for use with linux

Greetings!

I just bought a 300 gig external hard drive! I want to use it with
windows AND linux. I am quite new in linux but I want to get along with
linux quite fast so my motto is learning by doing.
Well... I bought this ext hdd yesterday. It's brand new and never used
before. I plugged in the drive and made a primary partition with fdisk
on the drive. After that i wanted to create a fat32 file system on it
with the following command:

mkdosfs -c -F 32 -n data1 -v /dev/sda1

The output begins with this:

mkdosfs 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)
/dev/sda1 has 255 heads and 63 sectors per track,
logical sector size is 512,
using 0xf8 media descriptor, with 586067202 sectors;
file system has 2 32-bit FATs and 32 sectors per cluster.
FAT size is 143013 sectors, and provides 18305660 clusters.
Volume ID is 4530c956, volume label data1 .

Then it starts to report about bad blocks:

Searching for bad blocks 106368... 246672... 390272... 533648...
677456... 825056... 974544... 1124928... 1274704... 1422432...
1546736... 1689824... 1812832... 1926272... 2027200... 2177216...
2317680... 2466528... 2609792... 2724736... 2854080... 2985424...
3083648... 3218176... 3353888... 3500384... 3626848... 3741824...
3879296... 3995632... 4113472... 4245600... 4365568... 4485616...
4615024... 4747760... 4864496... 4995968... 5115008... 5235904...
5381504... 5509248... 5605088... 5726032... 5836272... 5933520...
6066128... 6209552... 6359408... 6482736... 6599840... 6716800...
6833888... 6972368... 7119456... 7268000... 7391392... 7534544...
7681456... 7825424... 7969664... 8109440... 8224800... 8321072...
8425600... 8505392... 8601664... 8717504... 8832080... 8963360...
9072992... 9214304... 9347760... 9454960... 9566704... 9694800...
9782016... 9877760... 9961600... 10110688... 10236608... 10346192...
10459008... 10578400... 10706016... 10821824... 10950816... 11082080...
11215072... 11336992... 11480624... 11613248... 11742736... 11829872...
11931376... 12050384... 12175920...

This is only a very small part of blocks the program puts out.

What does that mean? Is the hard disk broken? I bought it yesterday and
it's really really curious.

Help please!

Sincerely,

Patric

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