Recovered! I spent some time plugging and unplugging it, and cracked the case and pressed and poked at all the components. Finally several tries later it recognized, and actually mounted a filesystem. I immediately opened a Terminal window and dd'd a copy of the entire device. It gave me the same file size as the other copies, but this one had readable files on it. When that was done I tried browsing the drive and the files I checked out opened ok. Then I mounted the last image I made with dd, which I had named with a .iso extension, and it mounted fine and the files were available there. SO, I unmounted the drive and un- and re-plugged it. It didn't mount. I did it again and it mounted. Unmount and tried again, no mount - and it hasn't since.
At least I had that small cahnce to make a good copy of the device.
Jon.
On 3/16/07, Kyle Sexton [email protected] wrote:
I would copy your backup and start playing around with it. Have you tried yet to mount it as a loopback device? Does fsck do anything to it?
-- Kyle Sexton