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
> >>> 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 
> >>> Portable Drive 1
> >>> TB
> >>>
> >>> On trying to mount I get this error message:
> >>>
> >>> mount: /backupdev: cannot read the superblock on /dev/sdc1
> >>>
> >>> Is the drive a brick or can I perhaps regenerate the superblock somehow?  
> >>
> >> That's a very bad sign.  Check the journal to see if it's an I/O error
> >> or corruption.  Which filesystem is it?  What does "file -s /dev/sdc1" 
> >> show?  
> > 
> >  From journal:
> > 
> > blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 5 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 
> > phys_seg 1
> > prio class 0 Buffer I/O error on dev sdc, logical block 5, async page read
> > sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#20 timing out command, waited 180s
> > sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#20 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK 
> > driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
> > cmd_age=201s sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#20 Sense Key : Not Ready [current]
> > 
> > Filesystem is ext4.
> >   
> > "file -s /dev/sdc1" just hangs, no output, have to close terminal to stop 
> > the hang.  
> 
> If you waited long enough, it probably would have stopped, but it looks 
> like every read attempt was taking 180 seconds to timeout.  I'm pretty 
> sure your drive is toast, but you could try taking it out of the case 
> and connecting it directly to a SATA interface somewhere and see if it 
> works at all.  It should at least timeout faster, I think.

OK, I accept it's now a coaster. The damn box is glued together, no screws, so 
it's not
easy to take apart - and not worth the bother :-(

Thanks for your support.

-- 
Erik P. Olsen - Copenhagen, Denmark
Fedora 33/64 bit xfce Claws-Mail POP3 Gramps 5.1.3 Bacula 9.6.5
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