> > > [10930894.488038] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 FAILED Result: > hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE > > [10930894.488041] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 Sense Key : Hardware Error > [current] > > [10930894.488043] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 Add. Sense: No additional > sense information > > [10930894.488045] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 CDB: Synchronize Cache(10) 35 > 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > > This USB thumb drive is quite obviously broken, or incompatible with your > USB controller. Try a different port or different system. Otherwise, > throw it away and learn not to store important stuff on thumb drives. >
If there's stuff you really need on the drive, try making an image of the device (that is, use the /dev device name) with ddrescue, then mount that image and run photorec (from "testdisk") over the mounted image.
