Re: [usb-storage] Re: usb disk recognized but fails

Alan Stern
2014-01-22T21:34:02Z

On Wed, 22 Jan 2014, Milan Svoboda wrote:

> >This continued a few more times until the computer gave up. Maybe
> >there is something wrong with one particular block at that address on
> >the disk.
>
> I tried to run fdisk /dev/sdb which obivously failed but it tried to access sectors 0, 1, 2, 3 which resulted in kernel log
> messages reporting invalid sectors.
> I tried to connect the disk with Windows and it was connected immediatelly, the partition is visible, I can read files, create files...
> No signs of problems visible...

Maybe Windows doesn't try to access that problematic disk block.

> I don't know if it tells anything, but Windows reports the disk as USB 2.0 SATA bridge even when connected to USB-3 ports.
>
> >
> >Do you have a USB-2 port on the computer you can plug the disk into,
> >instead of USB-3?
> >
>
> I tried it, but it is only one and separated on the other side of laptop so I could connect only one connector and the
> result is the same.

Which connector did you plug in: the data cable or the power cable?

Alan Stern