Are you just trying to use it with Linux, or is it also being used with other OS's such as Microsoft Windows XP or Vista? The manufacturors web site maakes it look like it wants to run software off NTFS to do windows backups. If you are in some kind of dual-boot environment you may want to start there. The unclean status sounds like what the manufacturor might ship after ghosting the drive but not running windows chkdsk against it.
If you only want to use it from Linux, then I'd suggest repartitioning it, something along the lines of
Code:
sudo -i
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=4k count=10
fdisk /dev/sdb # make a new primary partition #1 using the whole disk
mke2fs -j /dev/sdb1
Warning! This will completely destroy the contents of sdb!
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