Sounds like it's time for a reboot. -wes
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 11:48 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > Why didn't I think of that? > > OK, first I unplugged it from the laptop and plugged it into the > Desktop. It appeared immediately and the Desktop happily mounted it and > ls displayed all folders and individual files. Yay! (So far anyway.) > Then I went back to the laptop and tried various USB jacks, but nada. > However, dmesg gave me this: > > [234517.633973] usb 4-1: Disable of device-initiated U1 failed. > [234517.637438] usb 4-1: Disable of device-initiated U2 failed. > [234517.746532] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 6 using > xhci_hcd [234517.762595] usb 4-1: device firmware changed > > None of that makes any sense to me. > > On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:20:57 -0700 > wes <[email protected]> dijo: > > >I would watch /var/log/messages or dmesg output as I plug in the device > >(maybe try a couple of systems to see if there's a difference). > > > >If there's no output, the enclosure is dead and your drives are > >probably ok. > > > >If you get some output, there may be a hint as to the problem there. > >Could be anything at this point. > > > >-wes > > > >On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 11:15 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> > >wrote: > > > >> The command ls -la has always displayed all the directories first and > >> then individual files. Suddenly it just displayed the directories. > >> But then I discovered that it did display individual files for other > >> folders, the problem was only with one folder: /media/jjj/Movies. And > >> that folder is a Mediasonic USB enclosure holding a 6TB and an 8TB > >> SATA3 disk set up as Raid0. > >> > >> I decided to umount it and then mount it again, but I kept getting > >> busy error messages, even though anything that might be accessing it > >> is shut down. Finally I just powered it down and then turned it back > >> on. The display lights on the front of the case look normal, but it > >> does not appear. I also swapped the cables, but no joy. > >> > >> The device is 99.9% backed up to my Synology; the only thing I might > >> lose is one movie that I ripped this morning from a DVD that I own. > >> > >> A quick check tells me that I bought the Mediasonic case and the 8TB > >> WD drive in the summer of 2016. The 6TB is also WD, but a couple > >> years older. > >> > >> Where would you start to sleuth out what went wrong? > >> _______________________________________________ > >> PLUG mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > >> > >_______________________________________________ > >PLUG mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
