External HDD is corrupted

[Agent M]

Dave,

Yeah I thought I had something similar with me, except it has 2 cables,
one for power, and one for data, but when I went to dig it out, I only
have the power side of it, must have left the data cable back in
Australia. Will see if I can get something locally, so I can at least
rule the enclosures out.

Pete,

I did install gsmartcontrol, yes. Unfortunately even that wasn't getting
me anywhere.
I agree, things should "just work", and it would be odd for Ubuntu to
have an issue with such a simple device, but who knows, I should at the
very least try and rule it out.


And am still open to any and all other ideas.


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com>
Reply-to: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: External HDD is corrupted
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:15:36 +0000


On 27/03/14 16:02, David Fletcher wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-03-27 at 23:39 +0800, Agent M wrote:
>> This may be a silly question, but could it be possible for the type of
>> enclosures that I have to be the source of such issues? maybe not 100%
>> compatible with linux?? I know this may be a stretch, but at this
>> point am grasping at straws.
>
> Not silly at all - I was wondering exactly the same thing. I've bought
> two of these
>
> http://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/e11400.m1842.l3160/7?euid=fb887907de9b4c18997b7167cd970b68&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.co.uk%2Fws%2FeBayISAPI.dll%3FViewItem%26item%3D320955375179%26ssPageName%3DADME%3AL%3AOC%3AGB%3A3160
>
> one for me running Ubuntu the other for a friend running Mint. They both
> work perfectly. Mine gets used with an ext4 formatted drive, hers with
> the XP drive pulled from the laptop before I put in a new one to install
> Mint.
>
> HTH Dave
>
>
>
Hi,

Just checked on my laptop, and smart data is readable through usb (dock 
not enclosure) have you got smartctl installed (and its graphical 
frontend gsmartcontrol) I believe it is installed as default now but has 
had to be added in the past?!?!

My old laptop drive shows a  Temperature fault but has not given up yet 
(no I dont trust it with important data, but it still works!)

Hope you solve it as usb HDD's should just work (tm) in my experience I 
have never had an USB enclosure or dock that has not played well with 
Ubuntu (maybe I'm just lucky :¬) )

Pete S

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