2011/3/19 Jason Hsu <jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com>: > I have a 250 GB Seagate Expansion Portable Hard Drive that sometimes won't > mount. I end up having to use TestDisk to recover my files from it, and then > I have to reformat the drive. The drive works for a while, and then it > becomes unmountable sometime later. I've had this happen with the drive > formatted as NTFS (original) and ext2. > > The messages I get in the dialog box when I use the GUI to mount are "Unable > to mount device" and > "Error<i>org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.UnknownFailure</i>". >
Did your USB cable moved even by mm? I have similar problems with my external hdd, it is always losing connection when cable is moved even by 1mm. What you have in your /dev/sd* after lost connection ? ( in my case sdbX is still mounted, but there is no such thing as sdb* in /dev/, instead I have sdc which I can mount in exact same place as sdb, but it just repeating of process ) > The drive is listed in GParted as /dev/sdc, and the partition is /dev/sdc1. > When I try to mount the drive in a shell, I get an error message telling me > that it's not listed in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab. This is the case whether I > try to mount the drive as /dev/sdc, /dev/sdc1, /mnt/sdc, or /mnt/sdc1. > Try mounting sdd1 ( if you don't have any other sdd in /dev/ ) or whatever it will be > I did once try using the shred command to get rid of deleted files and to see > if there were any problems. Shred had no difficulty writing to any part of > the disk. > > What exactly is going on here? Does my drive have a hardware problem? What > tools can I use to evaluate the condition of this drive? > Just strange behavior of mount/kernel/usb external drives/whatever. I never got to WHAT exactly is happening there. darkestkhan ------------------------------------------ jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktim4z2o5vnmddyt4tb2szibkh_n6lcgh+hk1k...@mail.gmail.com
