On 2/6/20 2:43 PM, Max Pyziur wrote:
On Thu, 6 Feb 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 2/6/20 8:06 AM, Max Pyziur wrote:
>>
>> I have a Creative Zen Vision M that has a ZIF Drive (so it's
>> described on the Internet). It seems that iPods and competitors like
>> the Creative Zen Vision M had a disk drive falling into the general
>> category of ZIF. About a year ago, the device stopped working
>> (wouldn't start).
>>
>> However, when I plugged it in to recharge, the drive was definitely
>> spinning. Youtube has enough videos describing how to disassemble the
>> device, and Amazon has caddies for the drive so that you can plug it
>> into a USB port.
>>
>> I got one of the caddies, placed the drive into it, connected the
>> cable, and the drive can be seen when doing lsusb. But its not
>> mountable given whatever instructions I have been able to find. I do
>> get the following descriptions when I issue
>> #> smartctl -i -d scsi -T permissive /dev/sdc
>
> It's being recognized. What do the journal logs show from when you
> plugged it in?
This is what journalctl -f reports when it's plugged in:
Feb 06 17:39:44 pegasus kernel: scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access HTC42603
0G5CE00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
Feb 06 17:39:44 pegasus kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1
type 0
Feb 06 17:39:44 pegasus kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 58605120 512-byte
logical blocks: (30.0 GB/27.9 GiB)
Feb 06 17:39:44 pegasus kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Feb 06 17:39:44 pegasus kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
Feb 06 17:39:44 pegasus kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page
found
Feb 06 17:39:44 pegasus kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache:
write through
Feb 06 17:39:44 pegasus kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
Feb 06 17:39:44 pegasus Thunar[2003]: thunar-volman: Unknown block
device type "disk".
I assume this was a different time than before. You had sdc before and
this is sdb. What do "fdisk -l /dev/sdb" and "file -s /dev/sdb" give
you? (Replace block device name as necessary.)