Re: [gentoo-user] USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-24 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 22 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: What's with Linux support of external drives? Is it just not reliable enough to depend on? This was not a drive failure but just a bunch of sense code message problems and everything quit. I probably could have spent time removing drivers, etc,

Re: [gentoo-user] USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-21 Thread Paul Hartman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: 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

[gentoo-user] USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
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