Are you running a SATA system? If not, you could just remove the drive from
the external enclosure, put it on one of your IDE ribbons (double-check that
the drive jumpers are set correctly for CS/master/slave) to find out. If
you're running SATA you can pick up a cheep-o $10 external enclosure
(EIDE/PATA) and verify that way.
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
> My USB drive -- a Venus case with a 350M PATA inside (can't read the drive
> to get the model) won't read. Partition 6 and 7 fail with these errors:
>
> Aug 30 00:17:28 pc kernel: usb 1-3.1: reset high speed USB device using
> ehci_hcd and address 8
> Aug 30 00:17:59 pc kernel: usb 1-3.1: reset high speed USB device using
> ehci_hcd and address 8
> Aug 30 00:18:00 pc kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00050000
> Aug 30 00:18:00 pc kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector
> 289169751
> Aug 30 00:18:00 pc kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sde6, logical block
> 253826688
> Aug 30 00:18:00 pc kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sde6, logical block
> 253826689
> Aug 30 00:18:00 pc kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sde6, logical block
> 253826690
> Aug 30 00:18:00 pc kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sde6, logical block
> 253826691
> Aug 30 00:18:00 pc kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sde6, logical block
> 253826692
> Aug 30 00:18:00 pc kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sde6, logical block
> 253826693
> Aug 30 00:18:00 pc kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sde6, logical block
> 253826694
> Aug 30 00:18:00 pc kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sde6, logical block
> 253826695
> Aug 30 00:18:30 pc kernel: usb 1-3.1: reset high speed USB device using
> ehci_hcd and address 8
> Aug 30 00:19:01 pc kernel: usb 1-3.1: reset high speed USB device using
> ehci_hcd and address 8
>
> eben@pc:~$ hdparm -i /dev/sde
>
> /dev/sde:
> HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Invalid argument
>
> 6 is either reiserfs or ext3. 7 is FAT32, and 8 is ext3. I hear no weird
> noises. It worked a few hours ago. Do I have enough information to
> determine which is bad (the case or the drive), or do I need more?
>
> While I have a backup of my main drive, I don't have a backup of this. It
> isn't worth the \$$BIG_BUCKS I spent a few years ago to have a drive
> resurrected, so while it'll suck if the data's gone, I'll get on with
> things.
>
> --
> -eben QebWenE01R@vTerYizUonI.nOetP royalty.mine.nu:81
> Your pretended fear lest error might step in is like the man who
> would keep all wine out of the country lest men should be drunk.
> -- Oliver Cromwell
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