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On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Paul Hartman |
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<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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By definition this will be true when I move it from the PPC-based Myth |
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backend to the AMD64-based MythTV frontend here in the office. If it |
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'magically' starts working then that sort of cause may well be the |
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reason. |
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I'll report back on this but won't likely touch it before the weekend. |
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Thanks! |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |