<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Marco,<br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 at 19:09, Marco Fioretti <<a href="mailto:mfioretti@nexaima.net">mfioretti@nexaima.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:16px;direction:ltr"><br><div>Is there any hope it is not physically broken, and how to know it for sure, and then find/ fix the problem?</div></div></div></blockquote>You could show people the most recent entries in the kernel's ring buffer.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">So... you could:-</div><div class="gmail_quote">* Connect the drive as normal</div><div class="gmail_quote">* Type in the command dmesg and reply with the results (to the list rather than me).</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">HTH,</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Ian<br></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>-- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - <a href="http://www.accu.org" target="_blank">http://www.accu.org</a><br></div>-- My writing - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/</a><br><div>-- Free Software page - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software</a><br></div><br> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>