From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 4 11:42:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 075E61065677 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:42:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0D288FC31 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:42:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.28]) by QMTA02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id azWQ1a00L0cQ2SLA2ziHwd; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:42:17 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id aziG1a0042P6wsM8WziGlZ; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:42:17 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=e9zZnptHNXMA:10 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=x6cexuSLFzNpFGbvUcIA:9 a=dnFObU_g82MPjoCOHSIAId6zPKAA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9243EC9419; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:42:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 03:42:16 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: AN Message-ID: <20081104114216.GA46686@icarus.home.lan> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help with MY Book external drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:42:18 -0000 On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:13:21AM +0000, AN wrote: > I just purchased a WD MY Book external USB disk, I reformatted in UFS and > created a filesystem with sysinstall. I was able to put data on it > successfully, however overnite I had a power failure. Now I am unable to > mount the drive. The blue light is on, so it seems to be getting power > but the computer does not see it when I plug in the USB cable. I can not > run fsck because the system says /dev/da0s1d no such file or directory. > I tried da0s1, da0s1c, and da0s1d no luck. I also tried to plug the disk > into another machine, same thing the disk is not recognized. Is it > totally gone? Any help to recover this disk would be really > appreciated. Possibly, especially if you plug it into another machine and experienced the same problem. When you plug the drive in, does the FreeBSD kernel output anything? If so, what all does it output? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |