Comment on [Support] HDD diing or something else?
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
At this point, I would treat it as a failing drive and have a solid back up of the data.
The weird part is the sda device stops showing unless I turn the PC off and take the sata cables from it and restart the PC
That is the weird part. Almost like some intermittent power or connection glitch. Is this an internal drive or external in an enclosure? When you say the ‘sda stops showing’ does it disappear completely from lsblk? Does the drive have any SMART capabilities?
HumbleBragger@piefed.social 2 days ago
Yeah.. I’ll make a backup from the more important movies but most of them can be downloaded again thankfully.
It’s an internal sata drive powered by the PC PSU .. I have an old dock station I used to connect an old HDD to.my pi..I’ll try to use it and mount the drive using USB port to see if the problem is electrical. I’ve suspected the PSU could be the issue and I don’t know the exact power it provides. Lsblk shows the sda drive..fdisk -l does not since I unmounted the device. I’ve just installed smartools but I’m getting a fail inquiry message so I can’t really tell.