Fw: Re: Hard disk trouble

[James Mckenzie]

-----Forwarded Message-----
>From: James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net>
>Sent: Sep 3, 2010 1:32 PM
>To: JD <jd1008 at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Hard disk trouble
>
>JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>[ big snip ]
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>>>>> 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)
>>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>All I can say is that perhaps the OP committed a copy and paste error :) :)
>>
>Maybe.  However, this drive appears as a USB to SCSI drive.  Maybe sdc IS the drive, maybe it is not.  I've tried connecting two external drives via USB and only one was recognized as well.  Then again, you may be correct in that the drive is dead.  
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>One question to the OP, does it appear that the drive is 'spinning up' that is is the drive's motor starting?  If not, then the drive may not be receiving enough power through the USB connection to come up to speed and thus would not appear as existing on the system.  That was the case when I tried to use an external case and I had to get 'better' USB ports to run it.
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>I'm just trying to help eliminate the hardware side of the problem equation.  Sometimes the simplest things are the one's we overlook (like an upside down connector cable of which I've been a victim of <BSEG>.  Fortunately, the drive was not fried by this.
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>James McKenzie