From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 4 12:06:06 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 F19B71065677 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:06:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andy@neu.net) Received: from neu.net (neu.net [199.237.202.236]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B86138FC0A for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:06:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andy@neu.net) Received: from neu.net (neu.net [199.237.202.236]) by neu.net (8.13.6.20060614/8.13.6) with ESMTP id mA4C63Mi022326 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:06:05 GMT Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:06:03 +0000 (GMT) From: AN In-Reply-To: <20081104114216.GA46686@icarus.home.lan> Message-ID: References: <20081104114216.GA46686@icarus.home.lan> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (BSF 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.3/8563/Tue Nov 4 11:08:19 2008 on neu.net X-Virus-Status: Clean 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 12:06:07 -0000 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