Federico Alberto Sayd wrote: > Did you try to diagnose your hardrive with smartmontools? Smartmontools > uses S.M.A.R.T.[1] technology included in harddrives, and displays info > about predictable failures, time of use, etc. > > Regards > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.
$smartctl -a /dev/sdb smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [i686-linux-3.0.0-1-686-pae] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net /dev/sdb: Unknown USB bridge [0x059b:0x0571 (0x000)] Smartctl: please specify device type with the -d option. Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary What device type should I specify? This is what I get from dmesg when I connect the hard drive [123948.292055] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device number 11 using ehci_hcd [123948.425272] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=059b, idProduct=0571 [123948.425280] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=10, Product=11, SerialNumber=3 [123948.425287] usb 1-1: Product: Iomega HDD [123948.425292] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Iomega [123948.425296] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 506000009854 [123948.426280] scsi7 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0 [123949.466729] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access ST950032 5AS PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS [123949.493174] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB) [123949.493931] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [123949.493936] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 28 00 00 00 [123949.494673] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present [123949.494679] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [123949.497805] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present [123949.497810] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [123949.733091] sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4 < sdb5 sdb6 sdb7 sdb8 > [123949.736964] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present [123949.736969] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [123949.736973] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk Also, sometimes when I try to mount the partition, I get $pmount /dev/sdb7 [124321.902673] FAT-fs (sdb7): bogus number of reserved sectors [124321.918675] FAT-fs (sdb7): bogus number of reserved sectors I am sorry I am a bit naive when it comes to hard drive failures. Any help I can get is appreciated. thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- 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/k1ns90$3gj$1...@ger.gmane.org
