[Cialug] HD Problems

[Patrick Mcgillan]

Hi all,

My home drive on my Debian box is not talking. I removed it and
plugged it into another box with a USB adapter.

Using dmesg output, I get this;
[16966.835099] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 14
[16982.012064] usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 15
[16982.145570] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=05e3, idProduct=0702
[16982.145574] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
[16982.145577] usb 2-1: Product: USB TO IDE
[16982.145688] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[16982.146088] scsi17 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[16982.146265] usb-storage: device found at 15
[16982.146267] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[16987.144418] usb-storage: device scan complete
[16987.149364] scsi 17:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ST380020 A
   0811 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[16987.150086] sd 17:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[16987.151068] sd 17:0:0:0: [sdb] 156301488 512-byte logical blocks:
(80.0 GB/74.5 GiB)
[16987.152312] sd 17:0:0:0: [sdb] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
[16987.152316] sd 17:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[16987.154566] sd 17:0:0:0: [sdb] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
[16987.154570] sd 17:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[16987.154575]  sdb: sdb1
[16987.163813] sd 17:0:0:0: [sdb] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
[16987.163817] sd 17:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[16987.163821] sd 17:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk

The only thing it does is respond to fdisk and shows the partition table.

root at Sony:~# fdisk /dev/sdb

WARNING: DOS-compatible mode is deprecated. It's strongly recommended to
         switch off the mode (command 'c') and change display units to
         sectors (command 'u').

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x19138f7f

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1        9729    78148161   83  Linux

Command (m for help):

fdisk and mount just go to sleep and then come back with an error

root at Sony:~# e2fsck -y /dev/sdb1
e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
e2fsck: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read
while trying to open /dev/sdb1
Could this be a zero-length partition?
root at Sony:~#

Any suggestions? Could use some of the data on the HD. Forgot to check
backups and they stopped running last Dec due to other issues.

Patrick