Hardware :: Can't Access USB Disk
Oct 3, 2010
Every now and then my USB disk drops out and I get the following errors in dmesg:
But when I unplug it, and plug it back in do dmesg | tail, it doesn't pick it or any other usb storage device up (nothing comes out of dmesg this time).
So I tried to reload the module:
But as you can see I get the above error message.
They only think that works is a computer reboot (YUK!).
Any ideas:
* how to determine who is using it?
* force remove it
* solve my main issue of usb dropping out.
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Dec 21, 2009
How can I access an NTFS formatted disk to read the raw data?I have done this with the FAT file system. I followed the FATspecifications,d I can read the contents of each disk sector.
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Nov 22, 2010
I reloaded my PC onto a new disk then put the old disk back in the PC to recover old files. I kept the same pc name. The OS setup routine appears to have used my PC name (stiffler) to create the LVM names.
[root@stiffler ~]# pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/sda2 vg_stiffler lvm2 a- 232.31g 0
/dev/sdb2 vg_stiffler lvm2 a- 232.63g 0
So the volume group name on both of my disks has the same name!
I'm booted to the correct one, but I would like to access the second one.
How do I rename the other one so I can gain access to it by a unique name!?
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May 20, 2011
There is a little strange behaviour on my usb disk. Today i try to access it and, when i list directory i cannot find one of them.A result of the command ls -l give me this result for that directory:
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d????????? ? ? ? ? ? directory
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The disk is formatted in EXT3.i try chmod and chown, but the system give me a generic I/O error.The box is a new 1Tb box, ubuntu is 11.04.
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Dec 11, 2010
I do a bit for for local charity that refurbishes and repairs computers, the proceeds going to 'steps' at Bolton. A donation of several sas hard drives has come in and I have got the job of wiping the data before re-sale. I have got a sata adapter and been using a live cd/dvd to access said drive but the nearest I've got is for the live disk (cfdisk) to recognise there is something there although it cannot read it. Any suggestions? Or do I need a special motherboard or O/S?
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May 29, 2010
I use a WD 300 gb usb disk for backup, storage etc. No problems until a couple of weeks ago. I can access it with file managers, gparted, fdisk etc with no problems. But now I am unable to write more than the occasional file to the disk. There seems to be no consistency as to what will or won't write. I get a message that the operation is not permitted. This occurs under either user or root.It happens in both 13 and 13.1. No other issues have come up. The internal hard disk in the laptop remains normal. All other usb periph's are working properly.
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Aug 4, 2011
I made a clone of my ordinary disk with Clonezilla some times ago. Now I want to access some files on that cloned disk. Since the cloned disk also has a LVM structure I don't know how to mount it. When I connect the cloned disk I can see both /dev/sdb1 & sdb2. vgdisplay -v gives me:
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Feb 8, 2009
It all started when I decided to take the plunge and install Linux, bearing in mind that I am still completely dependent on Windows. I decided to go for Ubuntu, hearing that it is user-friendly and easy to learn. My current machine dual boots to WinXP & Vista. Following the guide regarding pre-partitioning, I decided to delete a partition I no longer use so I can install Ubuntu on there. Using XP's disk management, I deleted said partition, but it somehow also deleted my Vista partition! As a result, I am now unable to boot to Vista. I went back to XP, and ran Partition Magic to fix the partition tables. However, I get an error saying something about the partition's drive letter can't be identified. Decided to resinstall Vista but when it asked me where to install, I noticed that it only shows 3 partitions instead of 4 (my data partition has somehow vanished as well). Then I heard a noise from my HDD, and it suddenly reboots. Decided to log back to XP, but I am unable to boot to XP as well (got BSOD'ed).
Got my XP setup disk to reinstall, but this time, XP setup only recognizes one big partition(250gb).... and below the partition there is a note that says "Setup unable to access disk." I also tried the recovery console, and on the C: prompt when I did the chkdisk, it says something about invalid file path or can't find the path. Tried the Vista install again, it was also unable to access the disk. So what happened? Is my HDD dead? Finally, I thought I'd give Ubuntu a try. Decided to do the "Live CD" first, and wow, nice user interface! Then suddenly, I saw my "data" drive and "winxp" drive! Everything is accessible and all my files were there. I was overjoyed knowing that it didn't wipe out any of my files. So I guess my main question is, should I go ahead and install Ubuntu and will I be able to get those files back? Is there a program similar to XP's disk management? And finally, I know not related to Linux, but how can I boot back to XP?
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Oct 25, 2010
I know this is the 21st century, but there are a couple of floppies I needed to access and Ubuntu 10.10 couldn't read 'em. The floppy mounted, but with a disk in the drive I get "Media not found"....well, they work OK on Windoze. I found the solution on another forum. The latest version of udisks doesn't read floppies, but an old version will. You can't downgrade udisks from Synaptic, but there's a guide to downgrade here:[URL]It worked great, even for a n00b like me
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Aug 11, 2011
I do not have the machine personally but a friend of mine says her netbook with Linux detects the disk in the bios, but can not access it during the live usb. (but it worked previously). I have confirmed this with fdisk as fdisk detects the other devices as /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, so it knows there is supposed to be a /dev/sda, but it is not there.
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Apr 19, 2010
Quick question - I would like to know how to prevent users from accessing directories above the directory used for ftp. I'm running proftpd and I'm able to connect outside of my LAN, however all user accounts can click "Up to higher level directoy" and access everything, all the way up to the root directory. How can I make this unaccessable/not visible to users connecting to my server, allowing access only to the directories and subdirectories I have specified?
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May 8, 2010
i'm having some problems booting ubuntu 9.10 and i just want to backup my files and install it all over again.I want to access my old files from the ubuntu Live CD, because no kernel is working.Is there a way?. Just in case, i don't have partitions, so i don't have a 'home' one (but i'm going to
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Aug 23, 2010
On a modern system--Lucid, SATA 3.0--does the location of a file on the physical disk make an appreciable difference to its access speed? If so, is there a (safe) way to put a file in a particular place on the disk?
I ask because I would like to reserve some space on disk to remain unused without messing with the partition table. My thought was to do this by using dd to create some large files (4 Gb each, or so) containing zeros.But obviously I would like to put them on the slowest part of the disk, as they won't be used for anything.
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Feb 2, 2011
i have one hard disk drive in my ubuntu second user is cant access that drive so wt to do to give access permission
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Jul 16, 2011
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 as a full install from a USB flash drive. In other words, I've installed to the flash stick just as though it were a normal hard drive. This is not a Live USB/Persistent install.
The drive is an off-the shelf 8GB Gigaware stick, and its read/write performance is pretty slow. Any time I do anything that requires disk access, it's very sluggish and tends to hang.
I'm looking for advice on things I could do to minimize the amount of disk-access made in the course of using the system, so that it will feel snappier and more responsive.
Some things I've done already:Installed 'preload', which is a daemon that monitors what programs you use frequently, and pre-loads them into RAM to reduce startup time. Mounted /tmp as a tmpfs (RAM disk) and moved my Firefox and Chrome browser caches into RAM. Set noatime for my root and home partitions.
Should I be trying to disable the filesystem journal as well? I'm less concerned with potentially burning out the flash drive with too many writes than I am with just making the system more responsive and nicer to use.
One other thing I was reading about is the so-called "Laptop Mode" that appears to be kernel settings to allow you to spin down a laptop hard drive: [url]
Obviously a flash drive doesn't spin, but it seems like some of those same techniques could be helpful here. Is there anyone who has experience running Linux in a situation with a very slow hard drive?
The computers I'm using this flash drive with all have between 2 and 8 GB of RAM, so moving more stuff into RAM is unlikely to be an issue.
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Feb 18, 2010
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Jun 22, 2011
seems like I killed my softraid. First, my initial setup: 2x 1.5TB SATA disks -> raid1 with mdadm -> lvm -> multiple LVs as luks partition This worked for a while now, even though I made a bad mistake; I created the raid out of the whole disks (instead of creating partitons on them). I didnt notice because it worked...
Now one disk failed, but I could still access the other disk which I moved to another server. mdadm recognized it during boot, after vgscan --mknodes; vgchange -ay I saw the luks partitions in /dev/mapper/ and could mount them via luksOpen. Went well several times, I did not use the disk anymore to avoid killing it also.
Just today when I wanted to move the stuff to my new raid, this way wont work anymore
First of all, dmesg reports a wrong size (500G instead of 1.5T)
Code:
[ 1.943127] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] 976817134 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB)
[ 1.943153] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[ 1.943155] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
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What can I try to get my data back?
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Jan 26, 2011
I'm kind of new to programming in Linux & c/c++. I'm currently writing a FileManager using Ubuntu Linux(10.10) for Learning Purposes. I've got started on this project by creating a loopback device to be used as my virtual hard disk. After creating the loop back hard disk and mounting it has the following configuration.
Code: $> sudo fdisk -l /dev/loop0
Disk /dev/loop0: 10 MB, 10977280 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1 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: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/loop0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Now what I want to do is develop a c++ program to read & write files to this loop back device,which I'm using to simulate an actual hard disk,at the blocks & sectors level. So far I've come up with the following code. But I'm still unable to read files from the hard disk one block at a time.
Code: #include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>
using namespace std;
int main() {
char block[512]; int length=0;
cout<<"Implementation of the File Handler Read Method..."<<endl;
FILE *f = fopen("/dev/loop0", "r");
if(f == NULL) {
cout<<"Error In Opening the HardDisk File Retuning Error..."<<endl; return -1; }
//Read One Block of Data to Buffer length = fread(block, 1, sizeof(block), f);
/* Do something with the data */ cout<<"Length : "<<length<<endl;
return 0; }
When I run this Program All what I get is the message for NULL. "Error In Opening the HardDisk File Retuning Error...". So I could open the loopback device as a file an access it at the sectors & block level.
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