Re: backup drive has died.

2014-09-05 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/05/2014 07:32 PM, lee wrote: Sharon Kimble writes: Is there any way in which I can access the contents of the drive please? Try to mount it with appropriate options? Either you can mount it and use it without errors, especially sector errors, or you can't. When you get sector errors

Re: backup drive has died.

2014-09-05 Thread lee
Sharon Kimble writes: > Last night my backup drive died and is now totally unresponsive, but it > did give this error message when I tried to access it - > > Error mounting /dev/sde1 at /media/boudiccas/back1: Command-line > `mount -t "ext4" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/sde1" > "/media

Re: backup drive has died.

2014-09-01 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 10:33:05 +1000 David wrote: OOPS, my bad (and many thanks for your links); it is working with the right switch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://li

Re: backup drive has died.

2014-09-01 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 10:33:05 +1000 David wrote: > smartmontools.org writes quite a lot on this topic: > > http://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/FAQ#SmartmontoolsforFireWireUSBandSATAdiskssystems > http://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/USB > http://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Supported_USB-Devices Unfortu

Re: backup drive has died.

2014-09-01 Thread David
On 1 September 2014 23:01, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > Thanks both, unfortunately its a 3tb USB external hard drive, with > smartd installed and working, except, it doesn't work on external USB > drives! On 2 September 2014 07:51, Gary Dale wrote: > > Of course smartctl works with external drives.

Re: backup drive has died.

2014-09-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/09/14 09:01 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: Gary said: Install smartmontools on your system and check the backup drive's SMART status. Something like smartctl -H /dev/sde If it passes, then reusing is OK. Otherwise, try to recover what you can by making a copy of the disk using dd- rescue. Ha

Re: backup drive has died.

2014-09-01 Thread David Christensen
On 09/01/2014 03:19 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: Last night my backup drive died and is now totally unresponsive, Some hard drive manufacturers offer a bootable CD ISO image containing diagnostic tools that you can use to check their products. For example, SeaTools for DOS: http://www.seag

Re: backup drive has died.

2014-09-01 Thread Bzzzz
On Mon, 01 Sep 2014 11:01:41 -0400 Doug wrote: > Drives are cheap nowadays. Assuming you can get the data off the > drive, I can't see any good reason to trust it with your data > again, even if you can reformat it and partition it. were it me, I > wouldn't! --doug Glitches happen, Doug (especia

Re: backup drive has died.

2014-09-01 Thread Doug
On 09/01/2014 07:39 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: On 01/09/14 06:19 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: Last night my backup drive died and is now totally unresponsive, but it did give this error message when I tried to access it - --8<---cut here---start->8--- E

Re: backup drive has died.

2014-09-01 Thread Bzzzz
On Mon, 01 Sep 2014 11:19:01 +0100 Sharon Kimble wrote: > Error mounting /dev/sde1 at /media/boudiccas/back1: Command-line > `mount -t "ext4" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/sde1" > "/media/boudiccas/back1"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: > wrong fs type, bad option, bad supe

Re: backup drive has died.

2014-09-01 Thread Sharon Kimble
Gary said: Install smartmontools on your system and check the backup drive's SMART status. Something like smartctl -H /dev/sde If it passes, then reusing is OK. Otherwise, try to recover what you can by making a copy of the disk using dd- rescue. Hans said: To your question for reuse: I would s

Re: backup drive has died.

2014-09-01 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 01/09/14 06:19 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: > Last night my backup drive died and is now totally unresponsive, but it > did give this error message when I tried to access it - > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > Error mounting /dev/sde1 at /media/boudiccas/back1:

Re: backup drive has died.

2014-09-01 Thread Hans
Am Montag, 1. September 2014, 11:19:01 schrieb Sharon Kimble: > Last night my backup drive died and is now totally unresponsive, but it > did give this error message when I tried to access it - > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > Error mounting /dev/sde1 at /med

Re: backup drive has died.

2014-09-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/09/14 06:19 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: Last night my backup drive died and is now totally unresponsive, but it did give this error message when I tried to access it - --8<---cut here---start->8--- Error mounting /dev/sde1 at /media/boudiccas/back1: Command

backup drive has died.

2014-09-01 Thread Sharon Kimble
Last night my backup drive died and is now totally unresponsive, but it did give this error message when I tried to access it - --8<---cut here---start->8--- Error mounting /dev/sde1 at /media/boudiccas/back1: Command-line `mount -t "ext4" -o "uhelper=udisks2,n