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From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:12:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <h93oh5$2fe$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0909191538h2ebf7697s742f2ee90bb9752a@mail.gmail.com>

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)




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-19 23:13 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 [this message]
2009-09-19 23:32     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
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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