Using Gparted to restore an outboard USB drive -- how long should this take?

Mon May 15 20:34:04 UTC 2006

On Mon, 15 May 2006 15:24:37 -0500
C Hamel <yogich at sc2000.net> wrote:

> I'm only guessing, of course, but it seems there may be a prob w/the
> hardware. 

Argh. That's what I'm concerned about. What additional information
would be helpful? I've pulled up this from dmesg:

[4307992.947000] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[4307992.986000] scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[4307992.987000] usb-storage: device found at 6
[4307992.987000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[4307992.988000] usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
[4307992.988000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[4307993.188000] drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 7 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x8204
[4307993.189000] usbcore: registered new driver usblp
[4307993.189000] drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
[4307998.041000]   Vendor: Maxtor    Model: OneTouch II       Rev: 023g
[4307998.041000]   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 04
[4307998.053000] usb-storage: device scan complete
[4307998.196000] SCSI device sda: 586114704 512-byte hdwr sectors (300091 MB)
[4307998.196000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[4307998.253000] SCSI device sda: 586114704 512-byte hdwr sectors (300091 MB)
[4307998.254000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[4307998.254000]  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: unknown partition table
[4308006.828000] Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
[4308098.903000] SCSI device sda: 586114704 512-byte hdwr sectors (300091 MB)
[4308098.903000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[4308098.903000]  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: unknown partition table
[4308100.990000] SCSI device sda: 586114704 512-byte hdwr sectors (300091 MB)
[4308100.990000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[4308100.990000]  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: unknown partition table
[4308308.257000] FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
[4308308.257000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.
[4308435.022000] agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
[4308435.022000] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode
[4308435.022000] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode

This begins to look interesting (my emphasis added in the first line):

[4308736.006000] *program gparted* is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl,
please convert it to SG_IO [4308741.181000] hdc: command error:
status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } [4308741.181000] hdc:
command error: error=0x51 { IllegalLengthIndication
LastFailedSense=0x05 } [4308741.181000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[4308741.181000] end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 901960
[4308741.181000] Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 225490
[4308743.325000] hdc: media error (bad sector): status=0x51
{ DriveReady SeekComplete Error } [4308743.325000] hdc: media error
(bad sector): error=0x30 { LastFailedSense=0x03 } [4308743.325000] ide:
failed opcode was: unknown [4308743.325000] end_request: I/O error, dev
hdc, sector 901964 [4308743.325000] Buffer I/O error on device hdc,
logical block 225491 [4308744.481000] hdc: command error: status=0x51
{ DriveReady SeekComplete Error } [4308744.481000] hdc: command error:
error=0x51 { IllegalLengthIndication LastFailedSense=0x05 }
[4308744.481000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown [4308744.481000]
end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 901960 [4308744.481000] Buffer
I/O error on device hdc, logical block 225490 [4308745.772000] hdc:
media error (bad sector): status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[4308745.772000] hdc: media error (bad sector): error=0x30
{ LastFailedSense=0x03 } [4308745.772000] ide: failed opcode was:
unknown [4308745.772000] end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 901964
[4308745.772000] Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 225491
[4308792.439000] program gparted is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl,
please convert it to SG_IO [4308795.705000] hdc: command error:
status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } [4308795.705000] hdc:
command error: error=0x51 { IllegalLengthIndication
LastFailedSense=0x05 } [4308795.705000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[4308795.705000] end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 901960
[4308795.705000] Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 225490
[4308796.996000] hdc: media error (bad sector): status=0x51
{ DriveReady SeekComplete Error } [4308796.996000] hdc: media error
(bad sector): error=0x30 { LastFailedSense=0x03 } [4308796.996000] ide:
failed opcode was: unknown [4308796.996000] end_request: I/O error, dev
hdc, sector 901964 [4308796.996000] Buffer I/O error on device hdc,
logical block 225491 [4308839.407000] program gparted is using a
deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO [4308839.770000]
program gparted is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to
SG_IO [4308843.083000] hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error } [4308843.083000] hdc: command error: error=0x51
{ IllegalLengthIndication LastFailedSense=0x05 } [4308843.083000] ide:
failed opcode was: unknown [4308843.083000] end_request: I/O error, dev
hdc, sector 901960 [4308843.083000] Buffer I/O error on device hdc,
logical block 225490 [4308844.374000] hdc: media error (bad sector):
status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } [4308844.374000] hdc:
media error (bad sector): error=0x30 { LastFailedSense=0x03 }
[4308844.374000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown [4308844.374000]
end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 901964 [4308844.374000] Buffer
I/O error on device hdc, logical block 225491 [4308867.919000] program
gparted is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO
[4308868.306000] program gparted is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl,
please convert it to SG_IO [4308869.736000] hdc: command error:
status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } [4308869.736000] hdc:
command error: error=0x51 { IllegalLengthIndication
LastFailedSense=0x05 } [4308869.736000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[4308869.736000] end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 901960
[4308869.736000] Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 225490
[4308871.027000] hdc: media error (bad sector): status=0x51
{ DriveReady SeekComplete Error } [4308871.027000] hdc: media error
(bad sector): error=0x30 { LastFailedSense=0x03 }...

Pete
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