Disk Recovery via USB

[oldsweatyman]

Hey everyone, I recently had some cabling issues with a hard drive and so I removed it from the array. I haven't had a chance to build parity yet, I started with unraid relatively recently.

 

I am trying to recover the data on the drive. It is recognized by unRAID when I use the WD Easystore SATA -> USB adaptor:

 

 

However, I don't understand how I can mount it to recover the files? Any advice on this? The drive is formatted to XFS.

[FreeMan]

DO NOT CLICK FORMAT!

 

Generate diagnostics (Tools -> Diagnostics) and attach the complete .zip file to your next post.

 

DO NOT DO ANYTHING ELSE UNTIL YOU GET SOME ADVICE! Too many people have had tales of woe (data loss) from trying to fix things themselves when they're new to UNRAID. Just be patient, someone will help you.

 

Also, provide some more detail:

* Have you ever built parity or just not since you removed the drive?

* Is the drive recognized by the mobo when it's plugged into an internal SATA port?

* Is it recognized by UNRAID when it's plugged into an internal SATA port?

* Why are you using a SATA -> USB adapter? What problem are you tying to solve with that?

 

[oldsweatyman]

Thanks for the help. Attached are the diagnostics.

 

1. I have never built parity.

2. I haven't tested whether or not the drive is recognized by the mobo.

3. It is not recognized by unraid when plugged into an internal SATA port. It was before, and on a restart, it stopped being recognized, and so I removed it because the sata connector on the hard drive is missing plastic. It was working despite this plastic damage before.

4. I am using the SATA -> USB adapter because I see it showing up on unRAID, the USB adapter seems to fit the SATA connector on the hard drive better than a standard SATA cable. This is a last resort to try and get it working, sorry I know that's complicated.

 

FYI the adapter is what is inside the WD easystore case that's removed when you shuck it, I had one saved.

 

EDIT: getting "emhttpd: device /dev/sdg problem getting id" in the drive's log now. Might be permanently damaged..

EDIT2: i guess it got the ID eventually: "emhttpd: WD_easystore_25FB_32544B3233415A44-0:0 (sdg) 512 15628052480"

 

tower-diagnostics-20200527-1652.zip

Edited May 27, 2020 by oldsweatyman

[JonathanM]

The easystore USB-SATA adapter is most likely causing the issue. Is there any way you can attach it to a different internal SATA? Maybe get a cheap 2 port asmedia SATA card?