On Sonntag 20 September 2009, walt wrote: > On 09/19/2009 03:38 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 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 hate to be the party poop, but I suspect disk hardware failure. > > Can you use dd to read the raw disk? e.g. > # dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/ddout bs=512 count=1024(or whatever) >
he has block errors - dd won't help him much. ddrescue is a better choice in such circumstances.
