Hard disk trouble
James Mckenzie
jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Fri Sep 3 19:40:25 UTC 2010
JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>Sent: Sep 3, 2010 10:03 AM
>To: ankursinha at fedoraproject.org, Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>Subject: Re: Hard disk trouble
>
>
>
>On 09/03/2010 09:42 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
>> On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 09:24 -0700, JD wrote:
>>> On 09/03/2010 07:57 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
>>>> hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've plugged in my harddisk via a SATA/IDE to USB converter to my
>>>> laptop. The device is created as /dev/sdb, but fdisk -l or parted,
>>>> gparted do not show it as a drive.
>>>>
>>>> Here's the dmesg output:
>>>>
>>>>> scsi8 : usb-storage 1-2:1.0
>>>>> scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB TO I DE/SATA Device 0041 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
>>>>> sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
>>>>> sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
>>>> How do I access my drive? I intend to format it etc. and then set up
>>>> fedora 13 on it.
>>> Very very funny. LOL!!!
>>>
>>> You say the device is created as /dev/sdb,
>>> but you dmesg states clearly it is /dev/sdc
>>>
>>> Now all you do is
>>>
>>> sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> sudo parted -l /dev/sdc
>>>
>> lol,
>>
>> That was a typo. I'm not entirely a linux noob :P
>>
>> Disconnected, reconnected. Fresh outputs:
>>
>> dmesg:
>> [root at 070905042 ~]# dmesg
>> usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
>> usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=05e3, idProduct=0718
>> usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=2
>> usb 1-2: Product: USB Storage
>> usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 000000000033
>> scsi8 : usb-storage 1-2:1.0
>> scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB TO I DE/SATA Device 0041 PQ: 0
>> ANSI: 0
>> sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
>> sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
>>
>> [root at 070905042 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
>> [root at 070905042 ~]#
>>
>> (gave nothing)
>>
>> [root at 070905042 ~]# parted -l /dev/sdb
>> Model: ATA FUJITSU MHV2120B (scsi)
>> Disk /dev/sda: 120GB
>> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
>> Partition Table: msdos
>>
>> Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
>> 1 1049kB 538MB 537MB primary ext4 boot
>> 2 538MB 32.8GB 32.2GB primary ext4
>> 3 32.8GB 34.9GB 2147MB primary linux-swap(v1)
>> 4 34.9GB 120GB 85.1GB extended
>> 5 34.9GB 120GB 85.1GB logical ext4
>>
>>
>> Model: Seagate FreeAgent Go (scsi)
>> Disk /dev/sdc: 320GB
>> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
>> Partition Table: msdos
>>
>> Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
>> 1 32.3kB 107GB 107GB primary ext3
>> 2 107GB 129GB 21.5GB primary ntfs
>> 3 129GB 320GB 191GB primary ext3
>>
>>
>> No mention of the sdb :(
>Then your drive is dead!!
Interesting results here. What is the size of the supposedly dead drive and where is it connect to?
Information here is conflicting and I don't have access to the complete thread on the subject.
James McKenzie
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