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On Sonntag 20 September 2009, walt wrote: |
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> On 09/19/2009 03:38 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 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... |
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> I hate to be the party poop, but I suspect disk hardware failure. |
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> Can you use dd to read the raw disk? e.g. |
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> # dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/ddout bs=512 count=1024(or whatever) |
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he has block errors - dd won't help him much. ddrescue is a better choice in |
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such circumstances. |
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