From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:32:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200909200132.23598.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h93oh5$2fe$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Sonntag 20 September 2009, walt wrote:
> On 09/19/2009 03:38 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my
> >> MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to
> >> get it to wake up or at least show me what's working and what isn't?
> >> The drive shows under fdisk /dev/sda...
>
> I hate to be the party poop, but I suspect disk hardware failure.
>
> Can you use dd to read the raw disk? e.g.
> # dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/ddout bs=512 count=1024(or whatever)
>
he has block errors - dd won't help him much. ddrescue is a better choice in
such circumstances.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-19 23:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-19 22:21 [gentoo-user] USB drive dead? (Commands to check?) Mark Knecht
2009-09-19 22:38 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2009-09-19 22:59 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-09-19 23:05 ` Mark Knecht
2009-09-19 23:12 ` walt
2009-09-19 23:32 ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
2009-09-19 23:40 ` Mark Knecht
2009-09-19 23:48 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-09-20 0:01 ` Mark Knecht
2009-09-20 10:24 ` Stroller
2009-09-20 18:41 ` Mark Knecht
2009-09-21 8:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-09-21 21:38 ` Mark Knecht
2009-09-21 19:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2009-09-21 21:39 ` Mark Knecht
2009-09-22 20:20 ` Mark Knecht
2009-09-24 19:02 ` Mick
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