Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:06:03 +0000 (GMT) From: AN <andy@neu.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: help with MY Book external drive Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0811041204220.94202@neu.net> In-Reply-To: <20081104114216.GA46686@icarus.home.lan> References: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0811041056420.94202@neu.net> <20081104114216.GA46686@icarus.home.lan>
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On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > 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 | > Hi Jeremy: No messages from the kernel, nothing when I plug it in. It is not making any 'clicking' sounds that you usually get when a drive dies. I just don't get it. Maybe a power spike crushed it, but if so why is the light on? Thanks
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