Edision Mio+ Can't Access HD

[cyberham]

This morning I heard my external 1TB USB hard drive making a whirring sound. When I tried to access it from the Mio+ using the PVR button, I couldn't see anything. My short list of recordings seem to be gone. Otherwise, the Mio+ is working normally in every way on TNAP6.

I recently did a complete backup and noticed this backup took over an hour to complete. Usually it takes only 10 or 15 minutes. Not sure if this is related.

I would like to avoid formatting the drive but I will if that is necessary. Anyway, I'm not familiar with how to do that with the Mio+.

Below are some screen captures taken using Mount Manager. I notice one says "The backup GPT table is corrupt". That doesn't sound good. But it adds "...but the primary seems OK so that will be used".

How can I proceed?

 

[el bandido]

The unusual sound of the drive is worrisome. Post the output of these simple tests.
# Check if drive is detected by kernel
dmesg | tail -20
dmesg | grep -i usb
dmesg | grep -i error

# See all block devices
cat /proc/partitions

# Check what's currently mounted
mount | grep sda
cat /proc/mounts | grep sda

# Basic drive info
ls -la /dev/sd*

# Check free space (if mounted)
df -h

Test Drive Health:


# Look for drive errors in system log
dmesg | grep -i "i/o error"
dmesg | grep -i "reset"
dmesg | grep -i "abort"

# Check USB connection status
cat /sys/block/sda/removable # Should show 1 for USB drives
cat /sys/block/sda/size # Shows size in 512-byte sectors

 

[cyberham]

Output from commands is attached. I recently deleted a bunch of crash logs so that may have erased history.

 

[el bandido]

NO usb drive detected. Other usb devices are detected.
Unplug and replug the drive, then immediately run:dmesg | tail -10 in telnet.

 

[cyberham]

Attached is result after plugging the USB cable back into the Mio+. I notice when I power up the hard drive that I can hear what sounds like it attempting to do something repeatedly maybe 6 or 7 times then the sound stops.

 

[cyberham]

Just noticed I have a debuglog file that is 702MB in size that is dated this morning. That seems odd.

 

[el bandido]

Try powering the receiver off and swapping usb ports for the hard drive. A debug file of 702 MB's probably related to the logging of USB drive failure. Is the drive recognized on another device such as Windows or Ubuntu computer?