On Tue, Jan 3, 2023, at 12:32, Jason White via luv-main wrote: > On 3/1/23 12:23, Duncan Roe via luv-main wrote: >> >> Bit of a long shot, but are you using the original cable that came with the >> external drive? > > Thank you for asking, and, yes, it's the original (short) cable.
To back what Duncan said, yes, it's always worthwhile trying a known good cable. May the Good Lord protect us from bad USB cables! What I was going to suggest is to use smartctl (from the smartmontools package, at least on Debian). You can investigate the SMART status, and even run self tests. Other things to consider: Is the disk's power-supply good? Are the USB contacts clean? A decade is a pretty good age for a hard-drive, but then I've got some drives 20 years old still toddling along — admittedly not used much, but then components can age even when not used. When you get the drive connecting consistently, it'd be a good idea to run btrfs-scrub, but I guess you'd already have thought of that. If the btrfs-scrub shows up good, then you can probably get a bit more use out of the drive — though be ready to replace it as soon as you get scrub errors (even if you've got, say, a RAID-1 setup). Hope this helps. — Smiles, Les. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
