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On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my |
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> MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to |
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> get it to wake up or at least show me what's working and what isn't? |
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> The drive shows under fdisk /dev/sda. I can see the large partition, |
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> and it seems to be the right size, according to fdisk anyway, but I |
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> cannot mount it using mount, and so far I cannot get e2fsck to do |
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> anything. |
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I had similar errors with an external USB drive recently and it turned |
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out to be related to the USB port on the computer. (I suspect the USB |
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controller was overloaded). I plugged it into a port on a different |
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controller and it started working normally again. So some easy things |
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I would suggest trying before messing with data: |
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A) diferent USB port on the same computer |
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B) plug it into a different computer entirely |
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C) try a different USB cable |
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