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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:13:14
Message-Id: h93oh5$2fe$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?) by Mark Knecht
1 On 09/19/2009 03:38 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> Hi,
4 >> I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my
5 >> MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to
6 >> get it to wake up or at least show me what's working and what isn't?
7 >> The drive shows under fdisk /dev/sda...
8
9 I hate to be the party poop, but I suspect disk hardware failure.
10
11 Can you use dd to read the raw disk? e.g.
12 # dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/ddout bs=512 count=1024(or whatever)

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Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?) Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?) Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>