On 2021-03-14 at 17:45:27 Roger Heflin wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 4:44 PM Erik P. Olsen <epodata@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I've had this 1 TB drive for about 1 year and have been using it succesfully for > > backups of my anf my wife's systems and suddenly yesterday morning I was unable to > > mount it. Neither fdisk nor gparted can see it but lsusb can: > > > > Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0bc2:ab26 Seagate RSS LLC Backup Plus Slim Portable Drive 1 TB > > > > On trying to mount I get this error message: > > > > mount: /backupdev: cannot read the superblock on /dev/sdc1 > > > > Is the drive a brick or can I perhaps regenerate the superblock somehow? > > > > Run "smartctl --all /dev/sdc" and see what it reports. [erik@Erik-PC ~]$ sudo smartctl --all -T verypermissive -s on /dev/sdc smartctl 7.2 2021-01-17 r5171 [x86_64-linux-5.10.22-200.fc33.x86_64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org Read Device Identity failed: scsi error unsupported field in scsi command === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: [No Information Found] Serial Number: [No Information Found] Firmware Version: [No Information Found] Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: [No Information Found] Local Time is: Mon Mar 15 05:11:16 2021 CET SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 82-83 don't show if SMART supported. SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 85-87 don't show if SMART is enabled. Checking to be sure by trying SMART RETURN STATUS command. SMART support is: Unknown - Try option -s with argument 'on' to enable it. === START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION === SMART Enable failed: scsi error unsupported field in scsi command Read SMART Data failed: scsi error unsupported field in scsi command === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Status command failed: scsi error unsupported field in scsi command SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: UNKNOWN! SMART Status, Attributes and Thresholds cannot be read. Read SMART Error Log failed: scsi error unsupported field in scsi command Read SMART Self-test Log failed: scsi error unsupported field in scsi command Selective Self-tests/Logging not supported -- Erik P. Olsen - Copenhagen, Denmark Fedora 33/64 bit xfce Claws-Mail POP3 Gramps 5.1.3 Bacula 9.6.5 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure