From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mpqc5-0000jK-3T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:40:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D5CFE0877; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:39:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f181.google.com (mail-yw0-f181.google.com [209.85.211.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FA20E0877 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:39:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh11 with SMTP id 11so4093831ywh.9 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:39:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=oznX/TkmbMTQpnPz16f4kH4Xt+9wATjquwn1FvEuNkw=; b=uIMKGpkX/aB7L6hF4UxSzr8/K5uBxx1bzcCtwbSLsUCKpPK7jLs0UmVZ13XUTz+her 6W9eDOs8pVeelTCKOvkN79hrB04X76oQBkfXzUzkOv51HooPjGmxjwZQCFFAGKlz0Oh2 /+iT/Mcr7lN/Uawep5WbIveY/2pLAmUkv5lx8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=IsrWVk5hvBxTRZ+Xm4a/FWUPKpYo1PSIXJFC7wtdqiGlZ36MJeDRhEf+dj7HlBFPKl H78rJnKhQ9QAMJIXzVNYRQOLTVqcbWiaCGzjaLzQyQ3mhg7U9f8wI1bmaQM53YUiCOXL 0FdW1Tsn9SuRMJMewzzSJIcQ5g4Dt7wIK/RNk= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.16.2 with SMTP id t2mr406717ybi.176.1253569199126; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:39:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0909211207j37ec80ecmf21ff35da152186@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b0909191521j72388919w35e54b577b55ae60@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0909211207j37ec80ecmf21ff35da152186@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:39:58 -0700 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0909211439i5bffeea8kefb5166c4e213a5e@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USB drive dead? (Commands to check?) From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 4876a799-f8be-450b-8d45-859f06f3f29f X-Archives-Hash: e2398d5a870fbf3aeae2c47135a26505 On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Mark Knecht wrote= : >> Hi, >> =C2=A0 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 can see the large partition, >> and it seems to be the right size, according to fdisk anyway, but I >> cannot mount it using mount, and so far I cannot get e2fsck to do >> anything. > > I had similar errors with an external USB drive recently and it turned > out to be related to the USB port on the computer. (I suspect the USB > controller was overloaded). I plugged it into a port on a different > controller and it started working normally again. So some easy things > I would suggest trying before messing with data: > > A) diferent USB port on the same computer > B) plug it into a different computer entirely > C) try a different USB cable > > By definition this will be true when I move it from the PPC-based Myth backend to the AMD64-based MythTV frontend here in the office. If it 'magically' starts working then that sort of cause may well be the reason. I'll report back on this but won't likely touch it before the weekend. Thanks! Cheers, Mark