Fw: Re: Hard disk trouble
Ankur Sinha
sanjay.ankur at gmail.com
Mon Sep 6 14:30:38 UTC 2010
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 13:33 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote:
> >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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >James McKenzie
hi,
I've run it all over again.
I removed all my USB stuff. Only plugged in my hard disk using a SATA to
USB converter. The converter that I bought also has a external power
chord which I've attached to the hard disk as well. This is all the info
I got. At this time, only one of my USB ports is in use.
[root at 070905042 ~]# dmesg
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=05e3, idProduct=0718
usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=2
usb 1-1: Product: USB Storage
usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 000000000033
scsi8 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0
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
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa354ce15
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 66 524288 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 66 3982 31457280 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 3982 4243 2097152 82 Linux swap /
Solaris
/dev/sda4 4243 14594 83140608 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 4243 14594 83139584 83 Linux
[root at 070905042 ~]# ls -lAsh /dev/sd*
0 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 0 Sep 6 19:14 /dev/sda
0 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 1 Sep 6 19:14 /dev/sda1
0 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 2 Sep 6 19:14 /dev/sda2
0 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 3 Sep 6 19:14 /dev/sda3
0 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 4 Sep 6 19:14 /dev/sda4
0 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 5 Sep 6 19:14 /dev/sda5
0 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 16 Sep 6 19:52 /dev/sdb
[root at 070905042 ~]# lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 03f0:171d Hewlett-Packard Wireless (Bluetooth +
WLAN) Interface [Integrated Module]
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 05e3:0718 Genesys Logic, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05ca:1810 Ricoh Co., Ltd Pavilion Webcam [R5U870]
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
The Genesys Logic thing is the hard disk connection.
[root at 070905042 ~]# fdisk /dev/sdb
Unable to read /dev/sdb
Some one enquired if I had a PCI slot. I'm not sure. My laptop is an HP
dv6226tx[1]. I don't think it has one.
The hard disk is pretty old. It doesn't have any warranty. If it isn't
worth the trouble, I can purchase a new one. I just want to be sure I
can use this SATA to USB converter thing to access the HDD drives.
[1]
> http://www.rjesh.com/2007/04/hp-pavilion-dv6226tx-detailed.html
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Thanks for all the help!
Regards,
Ankur
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