From: Eric Schreiber <Eric.Schreiber_at_gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 22:42:17 +0200

On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 10:11:58PM +0200, Sander Sweers wrote:
> IO errors indicate the drive is dying. Check your dmesg and it will be
> full of errors. But it could also be a broken cable or usb port. Try a
> different cable or port.
Sander,

thanks for your quick answer!
Checked my dmesg: As you said it's full of errors.

[4295021.932000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[4295027.169000] Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: MK4004GAH Rev: JC00
[4295027.169000] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
[4295027.172000] SCSI device sdb: 78126048 512-byte hdwr sectors (40001 MB)
[4295027.172000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[4295027.178000] SCSI device sdb: 78126048 512-byte hdwr sectors (40001 MB)
[4295027.178000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[4295027.178000] /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
[4295027.511000] Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
[4295027.512000] Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
[4295027.515000] usb-storage: device scan complete
[4295078.103000] SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002
[4295078.103000] sdb: Current: sense key: Medium Error
[4295078.104000] Additional sense: Unrecovered read error
[4295078.104000] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 4213664
[4295078.104000] FAT: Directory bread(block 4213601) failed
[4295125.928000] SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002
[4295125.928000] sdb: Current: sense key: Medium Error
[4295125.928000] Additional sense: Unrecovered read error
[4295125.928000] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 4213665

I'll try out a different cable tomorrow, but I think there's little
hope.
The unit should be under a 2 year's warranty so I think I'll send it back to
amazon in hope that they will be so kind to swap it. If not I might get
the chance to put in a new (and probably bigger) hardrive myself.

Thanks
  -Eric
Received on 2006-05-14