Hi everybody
I'm having trouble with a usb external hdd (1TB)
The thing is, that it was plugged into my machine first with ntfs file system on it. I tried to copy everything to my internal harddrive where some files were detected corrupted, so I had to skip them.
I then first thought that it was a better idea to have it formated as fat32 as it would be easier to use between different OSs. I'm using arch linux here.
Then I found out that for a 1TB drive ntfs would still be a bette choice as it is a little big to handle fat32.
The problem first showed up when I was trying to format it with mkfs.vfat where the drive simply shut down. I heard that noise that a hard drive does when it shuts down. I guess it's the thing when the "reader" of the drive gets "parked".
A few attempts later I was back trying to format it with ntfs. which I did with gparted. All looked fine and I started to copy the files back on the drive. All of a sudden the drive shut down again ...
So I don't know whether I broke something while formatting with fat32 or later in the process.
Right now I'm running badblocks -v -s on it. this will take a long time as it seems to me right now. after 2h 20 min it's at 20%.
The question would be now:
- any suggestions?
- how to propperly format the thing on ntfs, that everything should be fine in case there's no hardware problem? (and what is the correct order of doing things, i.e. does it make sense to run badblocks, if as for now the drive is not really recognised in the attempt to mount. see dmesg output below)
- what tests to run to detect hardware problems (ther seems to be no smart support on the drive)?
thanx a lot in advance
lsusb:
Code:
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 152d:2336 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. Hard Disk Drive
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x152d JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp.
idProduct 0x2336 Hard Disk Drive
bcdDevice 1.00
iManufacturer 1 JMicron
iProduct 2 MEDION HDDrive2GO
iSerial 5 F60714988888
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 32
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 4 USB Mass Storage
bmAttributes 0xc0
Self Powered
MaxPower 2mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 2
bInterfaceClass 8 Mass Storage
bInterfaceSubClass 6 SCSI
bInterfaceProtocol 80 Bulk (Zip)
iInterface 6 Bulk-In, Bulk-Out Interface
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes
bInterval 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x02 EP 2 OUT
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes
bInterval 0
Device Qualifier (for other device speed):
bLength 10
bDescriptorType 6
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
bNumConfigurations 1
can't get debug descriptor: Connection timed out
Device Status: 0x0001
Self Powered
dmesg:
Code:
sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled sense code
sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Sense Key : 0x3 [current]
sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x0
end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 338444528
Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 42305566
