On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 06:09:20PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 17:39, Matt Price wrote: > > hey folks, > > > > I have an external firewire hard drive mounted via the scsi/firewire > > system -- I store my mp3's there mainly. > > > > my 3-year-old turned off the drive unit's power switch one day when I > > wasn't paying attention (hopefully learned a parenting lesson > > there!). Now the drive is still detected by rescan-scsci-bus.sh, and > > the relevant partition will mount, but any operation I try gives the > > following error: > > > > > > [18:36:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /mnt/firewire2 > > [18:36:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /mnt/firewire2 > > ls: reading directory /mnt/firewire2: Input/output error > > > > so my question: how do I start figuring out what's wrong? I'd rather > > not have to delete the whole iflesystem... > > > > any suggestions? > > thx, > > > > matt > > Well, for starters you can look at dmesg output when you first plug in > the drive. Make sure that it's still being detected ok and that the > connection is established properly. (if you see a "logged in" message > you should be good.) > > Assuming that it was just a filesystem problem and not any sort of > hardware problem, and assuming that all of your firewire stuff works ok, > the first thing to do is make sure that sbp2 is creating the SCSI device > properly and then to check the partition table on the HD. First do a > 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi' and make sure that it's showing up in there. If it > is, do a 'fdisk -l /dev/sda' (assuming that it's at sda of course) and > make sure the partition table is intact. If all of this comes up ok then > you're in pretty good shape. > > Now just do a quick fsck on the drive and you're done. In case you're > not sure how, just do 'fsck.<your filesystem type> /dev/sda'. So if > you're using a reiserfs partition, it would be fsck.reiserfs. For ext3 > it's fsck.ext3 and so on. > > Hope that helps. :) >
hey, thanks, that does help. Had, er, forgotten to mention that this is an hfsplus partition (running on a neworld mac). ran hpfsck and it tells me the disk is fine (no errors); but I still get input/output errors when mounting. So still don't know whatthe problem is -- but I'm gonna move the discussion over to debian-powerpc, now thattttttttttTT've,er, acually read the listing in my /etc/fstab and realized the problem pertains to a hfsplus partiton! thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
