* David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> [24-10/03=Thu 22:44 -0500]: > On Thu 03 Oct 2024 at 20:26:55 (-0700), Will Mengarini wrote: >> The old HDD is mostly ext3; there was also an >> ext2 boot partition, and a swap partition. [...] > > Take a look at /dev/disk/... where the names of the next level > of directories are self-explanatory. The files themselves > are all symlinks pointing to the kernel's device names.
I see lots of directories referring to my SSD, but nothing else. > Also /run/udev/data/b... where spinning rust disks are b8:N, > and N is a power of two for a disk, then N+1, N+2 etc for > the partitions. SSDs will be some other number like, say, > b259:0. The file contents are what udev has discovered. All I see are b259 and b7. There is no b8. This does not change when I plug in the enclosure. Now I realize that there may be an error LED blinking on the HDD. It is concealed by the enclosure so I had not seen it before. I think this hard drive is probably bad. It may have been damaged when the motherboard to which it was attached was damaged by a power surge from hell, or it may be connected improperly to the enclosure (although that seems unlikely since there is only one way to connect it). Or the enclosure may be bad; I only bought one so I have no way to test that hypothesis. I don't see a brand name anywhere on the enclosure. I was surprised at how short both the power and data cables are. The whole thing does seem rather cheap.
