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 1Mp97C-00084Q-Cv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:13:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 96BD0E098A; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:13:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7068BE098A for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:13:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EE4366F40 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:13:12 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.347 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.347 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.748, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ROZLNx873ukB for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:13:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ADD364571 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:13:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Mp96z-0006xQ-S0 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:13:01 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-219-69.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.219.69]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:13:01 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-219-69.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:13:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?) Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:12:33 -0700 Message-ID: References: <5bdc1c8b0909191521j72388919w35e54b577b55ae60@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0909191538h2ebf7697s742f2ee90bb9752a@mail.gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-219-69.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090919 Shredder/3.0pre In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0909191538h2ebf7697s742f2ee90bb9752a@mail.gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: f020805f-1937-4fee-9cb2-b0763c5362cd X-Archives-Hash: 504cf5f9e087d03e40190666291770bf On 09/19/2009 03:38 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht 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)