On Wed, 22 Jan 2014, Milan Svoboda wrote: > >This continued a few more times until the computer gave up. Maybe > >there is something wrong with one particular block at that address on > >the disk. > > I tried to run fdisk /dev/sdb which obivously failed but it tried to access sectors 0, 1, 2, 3 which resulted in kernel log > messages reporting invalid sectors. > I tried to connect the disk with Windows and it was connected immediatelly, the partition is visible, I can read files, create files... > No signs of problems visible... Maybe Windows doesn't try to access that problematic disk block. > I don't know if it tells anything, but Windows reports the disk as USB 2.0 SATA bridge even when connected to USB-3 ports. > > > > >Do you have a USB-2 port on the computer you can plug the disk into, > >instead of USB-3? > > > > I tried it, but it is only one and separated on the other side of laptop so I could connect only one connector and the > result is the same. Which connector did you plug in: the data cable or the power cable? Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html