Unable to read external hard disk
I am unable to read my external SATA that is in hard drive enclosure. Formatted to EXT3. It's connected via USB. When i try to access, iam receiving below error.
I tried fsck but it's going on for 15hrs with no result and i had to terminate it. I hear the disk spin randomly when using fsck
Help me resolve the issue.
Quote:
Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/xxxxx/SAMSUNG 1.5TB: Command-line `mount -t "ext3" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/sdb1" "/media/xxxx/SAMSUNG 1.5TB"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
dmesg output
Quote:
$ dmesg | tail
[17081.968093] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[17081.968096] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb]
[17081.968098] Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
[17081.968103] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb]
[17081.968107] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error
[17081.968110] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB:
[17081.968112] Read(10): 28 00 00 00 28 18 00 00 08 00
[17081.968123] end_request: critical target error, dev sdb, sector 10264
[17081.968174] EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=8, block=1027
[17081.969193] EXT3-fs (sdb1): error: no journal found
Re: Help!!! Unable to read external hard disk
dmesg is showing that the ext3 filesystem is broken. If "e2fsck -pvy" cannot repair it, then you are done with it.
The hard drive itself may or may not be failing. Running the smartmon long test should answer that question.
