On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> 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 can see the large partition, > and it seems to be the right size, according to fdisk anyway, but I > cannot mount it using mount, and so far I cannot get e2fsck to do > anything.
I had similar errors with an external USB drive recently and it turned out to be related to the USB port on the computer. (I suspect the USB controller was overloaded). I plugged it into a port on a different controller and it started working normally again. So some easy things I would suggest trying before messing with data: A) diferent USB port on the same computer B) plug it into a different computer entirely C) try a different USB cable
