[SOLVED-ISH] External USB hard drive issue
When I plug a WS external USB drive used many times before aok now does not mount.
The following from dmesg. Does this mean the drive (or electronics of it) are broken? Code:
[ 1678.529099] usb 1-6: new high-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd |
Not to me.
It indicated the drive was slow to speed up, and the software initally read it wrong and posted errors. It often happens with platter disks. |
so anything can do to make it re-attempt load or mount?
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About half way down your log, it gives you a line 'spinning up disk …", that is, spinning up from zero speed.
Then follow a few errors when it attempts to read the disk while it is underspeed, I guess. Then it announces 'ready' and does the usual stuff. You don't appear to have it in fstab. In X, you should just retry to mount it, or in a terminal, type Quote:
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There are multiple ways of automounting external drives. You apparently disabled whatever was in use by whatever distro and desktop environment you're using. If you don't want it automounted, you can use the standard mount command. If you do want it automounted, you can put it in /etc/fstab or you can enable automounting hwever that works in whatever DE you're running.
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You don't appear to have it in fstab Code:
In X, you should just retry to mount it, or in a terminal, type Code:
There are multiple ways of automounting external drives. You apparently disabled whatever was in use |
Sounds like a dodgy interface or power maybe. Try the simple things - ues a different cable, and a different plug. Keep an eye on later messages. Plug it in and post "lsblk -f".
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I swapped to a known working USB cable from another drive
Same results (in dmesg too) I tried an entry in fstab (that just screwed up the boot process had to revert) running lsblk -f yields Code:
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT |
So it's seen ok. Try mounting it and post all messasges. Also what do you mean by "gparted /dev/sdd fails" ?. Let's see any and all messages - post a photo in need.
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what do you mean by "gparted /dev/sdd fails" Code:
Failed to read lock '/dev/sdd1': Resource temporarily unavailable Code:
Try mounting it and post all messages Code:
$ sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdd1 /mnt/TST099 Code:
Dec 6 11:24:16 Unit200320 systemd-udevd[373]: sdd1: Worker [4464] failed |
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NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT |
really ... all are run with sudo
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I'll cut a little more slack - is ntfs-3g installed. If not, why not ?. The in-kernel NTFS driver is as old as dirt. Worst case, the I/O errors may be real (physical) errors, but let's assume they are just logical errors because ntfs-3g isn't there.
As always, more data is always beneficial. |
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is ntfs-3g installed and as mentioned, all other usb drives still continue to work.... it is only this drive that no longer co-operates. |
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