Sabrent 2.5 hd to usb 3.00 - not detected now, working before - kde

Soon, I will buy a cheap ssd to replace it. When I install it into the sabrent, I will know if it’s the sata<–>ssd connection or the MD has failed.

If I can figure how how to change the kernel parms, I’ll post the results.

sysctl -a | grep usb-storage.quirks

Nothing, I will to add it, unless someone says i’m wrong.

#sysctl -a | grep usb

nothing

/etc/default/grub

# GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"
GRUB_BACKGROUND=
GRUB_THEME=/boot/grub2/themes/openSUSE/theme.txt
SUSE_BTRFS_SNAPSHOT_BOOTING="true"
GRUB_USE_LINUXEFI="true"
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER="false"
GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK="n"
GRUB_CMDLINE_XEN_DEFAULT="vga=gfx-1024x768x16"

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="usb-storage.quirks=152d:1561:u"

Rebooting…

When I rebooted, the blue light was on. A few seconds later, the drive appeared. I did a full backup of linux, one folder at time. It copied at about 3.00 m/s.

Normal:
‘USB 3.00’ linux about 5-10 m/s
'USB 3.00 w10 about 100-120 m/s

EST 20 mins for 133GB for games info folder. Copy times faster than a flash drive on linux.

Every folder on my linux drive is backed up! Now, I don’t have to re-download all my game installers after I do a fresh install for a new opensuse version. (upgrades usually don’t go well and backing up everything is always a good idea)

Sabrent/1tb MD Storage stats: 21% used :smiley:

Thanks to all. For those who do bug fixes, note the grub changes to get sabrent to work.

Note, I will file this away in linux info folder for later use.

Final note, the Magnetic Drive is a bit slow. So, I may get another sabrent and a 1tb (or 2tb) sdd for faster transfers.

The MD worked after adding the opensuse text patch for a few days. Then, failed again. I checked, the patch was still there. Plugged-in on opensuse, it caused massive slow downs on booting. I setup my mswin10 system. In partitions, the drive was present but had a red boarder on it. It would not load and asked me to format it. Last time that gave me a hardware error.

I removed the md from the sabrent adapter. I bought a new ssd 2tb (only $20 off - ugh) and installed it into the adapter. In mswin10, I formatted it and it worked. Booted my opensuse system. Removed the windows partitions. Added a new partition and formatted in btrfs (changed label). Then, backed up the home folder successfully.

Thankfully, I’ve only lost a few files. Most were located somewhere on flashdrives or other HD’s.

Maybe, I’ll be able to recover them one day. FYI, after reading about it, BTRFS seemed like the right choice.

Thanks to all for the help. :slight_smile:

Topic Closed…

When It was unmounted, I turned it off, while I saw the blue light flashing. Now, it says unformatted drive in yast partitions? The drive will not mount. ??

#btrfs check /dev/sdc1
Opening filesystem to check…
No valid Btrfs found on /dev/sdc1
ERROR: cannot open file system

Possibly the drive itself has failed.

You could try:

# fdisk -l /dev/sdc

and maybe also try with a different physical disk in the Sabrent box, to help decide whether it is the drive or the box that has failed.

I did that with the MD drive, it went bad. It’s been shelved since.

Well, I tried every btrfs system recovery command off the net nothing worked. I booted and the drive was never mounted. Why was it writing to the drive at that time?? Turning it off, was turning it while writing apparently.

This is the 4th time I’ve used btrfs and the drive became corrupted, all files were unrecoverable.

I erased all partitions on that ssd/sabrent. I btrfs format and backed up my files again. It’s working fine for now. If I have another drive corruption I do a new post.

I still want to know why bfrfs was doing disk write before it was even mounted. ?