You should get some kind of SMART reporting utility and show what smart is saying. If has sector errors take the drive out of play immediately.
On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Zos Xavius <[email protected]> wrote: > That looks like a failing drive that needs to be replaced. Since it is > a time machine drive I don't know what the correct procedure for > copying and moving the data over would be. I would imagine that some > of it is certainly corrupt if it is failing a file system check. Is > this your only backup? You should be making backups to one drive and > mirroring it to another in the event that your backup media has failed > when you need it. > > On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 10:31 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have a Toshiba 4TB external drive in an OWC housing that has my Time >> Machine backup on it (1.8TB so far). >> >> When I sat down yesterday, it would not mount. Eventually it did, and I ran >> Disk Utility, which gave me this message: >> >> >> Invalid name for directory inode (id=5966587) >> (it should be dir_5966587 instead of temp5966587) >> Incorrect number of directory hard links >> The volume Huge Ext HD could not be verified completely. >> File system check exit code is 8. >> Updating boot support partitions for the volume as >> File system verify or repair failed. >> Operation failed… >> >> Is there a way to repair the drive without erasing it? I’d have to buy >> another drive to hold the data, and I have no other use for one. >> >> Can the drive be repaired at all, or is it toast? >> >> Rick >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
