Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-19 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 2021-03-19 at 15:13:10 elder sixpack13 wrote: > > well, when it's dead, it might be dead for smartctl command's too > No ? > ;-) The disk is stone dead and now it's demolished :-( -- Erik P. Olsen - Copenhagen, Denmark Fedora 33/64 bit xfce Claws-Mail POP3 Gramps 5.1.3 Bacula 9.6.5

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-19 Thread elder sixpack13
> The dd-rescue package on linux should work just fine. Assuming you > can get the disk to respond. If the disk is taking 180s then the disk > is not responding at all, and even if the disk were responding in 10 > sec any rescue program will take longer than anyone will wait. The > software too

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-16 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 16 Mar 2021, Roger Heflin wrote: Best plan would be to get it out of the usb enclosure and see if smartctl will return anything useful and see if the disk behaves better. Another USB enclosure might work. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must contai

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-16 Thread Roger Heflin
The dd-rescue package on linux should work just fine. Assuming you can get the disk to respond. If the disk is taking 180s then the disk is not responding at all, and even if the disk were responding in 10 sec any rescue program will take longer than anyone will wait. The software tools will on

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-16 Thread elder sixpack13
> On 2021-03-16 at 15:40:23 Erik P. Olsen wrote: ... > Well, unfortunately for DOS/Windows only. there are small iso's (~10 MB). I guess mediawriter should be able to put that on an usb stick too or a cd-writer on an cd. ___ users mailing list -- users@

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-16 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 2021-03-16 at 15:40:23 Erik P. Olsen wrote: > On 2021-03-16 at 13:38:16 elder sixpack13 wrote: > > > > I've had this 1 TB drive for about 1 year and have been using it > > > succesfully for > > > backups > > > of my anf my wife's systems and suddenly yesterday morning I was unable > > > to m

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-16 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 2021-03-16 at 13:38:16 elder sixpack13 wrote: > > I've had this 1 TB drive for about 1 year and have been using it > > succesfully for > > backups > > of my anf my wife's systems and suddenly yesterday morning I was unable to > > mount it. > > Neither fdisk nor gparted can see it ... > > m

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-16 Thread elder sixpack13
> I've had this 1 TB drive for about 1 year and have been using it succesfully > for > backups > of my anf my wife's systems and suddenly yesterday morning I was unable to > mount it. > Neither fdisk nor gparted can see it ... maybe this might help to get some data/the disk back: https://www.hda

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-15 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 at 14:56, Roger Heflin wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 11:58 AM Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > > > On 2021-03-15 at 12:26:49 Tom Horsley wrote: > > > > > I always take apart old dead disks to retrieve the magnets > > > > Maybe I should. The disk contains 8 months of backups that I

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-15 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 at 13:27, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:55:01 +0100 > Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > > not > > easy to take apart - and not worth the bother :-( > > I always take apart old dead disks to retrieve the magnets, allowing > me to kill time by building things like this: > >

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-15 Thread Roger Heflin
On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 11:58 AM Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > On 2021-03-15 at 12:26:49 Tom Horsley wrote: > > > I always take apart old dead disks to retrieve the magnets > > Maybe I should. The disk contains 8 months of backups that I can't get at and > has to be > demolished anyhow - or else my sl

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-15 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 2021-03-15 at 12:26:49 Tom Horsley wrote: > I always take apart old dead disks to retrieve the magnets Maybe I should. The disk contains 8 months of backups that I can't get at and has to be demolished anyhow - or else my sledgehammer will do it :-) -- Erik P. Olsen - Copenhagen, Denmark F

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:55:01 +0100 Erik P. Olsen wrote: > not > easy to take apart - and not worth the bother :-( I always take apart old dead disks to retrieve the magnets, allowing me to kill time by building things like this: https://tomhorsley.com/hardware/solidoodle/solidoodle-kitchen-mag.h

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-15 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 2021-03-15 at 01:51:21 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 3/14/21 9:36 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > On 2021-03-14 at 14:58:50 Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > >> On 3/14/21 2:44 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > >>> I've had this 1 TB drive for about 1 year and have been using it > >>> succesfully for > >>> backup

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-15 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 at 05:49, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > smartctl doesn't work well on USB attached drives. > https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/USB explains the situation. Smartctl has worked well for me (several years ago) on drives from LaCie and G-Technologies. -- George N. White III _

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/14/21 9:36 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 2021-03-14 at 14:58:50 Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/14/21 2:44 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I've had this 1 TB drive for about 1 year and have been using it succesfully for backups of my anf my wife's systems and suddenly yesterday morning I was unable to mo

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/14/21 9:13 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: [erik@Erik-PC ~]$ sudo smartctl --all -T verypermissive -s on /dev/sdc smartctl 7.2 2021-01-17 r5171 [x86_64-linux-5.10.22-200.fc33.x86_64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org Read Device Identity fai

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-14 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 2021-03-14 at 14:58:50 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 3/14/21 2:44 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > I've had this 1 TB drive for about 1 year and have been using it > > succesfully for > > backups of my anf my wife's systems and suddenly yesterday morning I was > > unable to > > mount it. Neither fdisk

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-14 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 2021-03-14 at 17:45:27 Roger Heflin wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 4:44 PM Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > > > I've had this 1 TB drive for about 1 year and have been using it > > succesfully for > > backups of my anf my wife's systems and suddenly yesterday morning I was > > unable to > > mount

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-14 Thread Roger Heflin
On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 4:44 PM Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > I've had this 1 TB drive for about 1 year and have been using it succesfully > for backups > of my anf my wife's systems and suddenly yesterday morning I was unable to > mount it. > Neither fdisk nor gparted can see it but lsusb can: > > B

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 22:44:26 +0100 Erik P. Olsen wrote: > Is the drive a brick or can I perhaps regenerate the superblock somehow? There are lots of copies of the superblock. I had a drive go bad like that once and was able to use tools (the names of which I no longer remember - sorry) to print i

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-14 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/14/21 2:44 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I've had this 1 TB drive for about 1 year and have been using it succesfully for backups of my anf my wife's systems and suddenly yesterday morning I was unable to mount it. Neither fdisk nor gparted can see it but lsusb can: Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0bc2

Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-14 Thread Erik P. Olsen
I've had this 1 TB drive for about 1 year and have been using it succesfully for backups of my anf my wife's systems and suddenly yesterday morning I was unable to mount it. Neither fdisk nor gparted can see it but lsusb can: Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0bc2:ab26 Seagate RSS LLC Backup Plus Slim Port