An older WD external USB drive suddenly fails to provide data access today.
lsusb | grep Western returns
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 1058:0730 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. My Passport Essential (WDBACY)
lsblk -o model,name,fstype,size,label,mountpoint returns:
MODEL NAME FSTYPE SIZE LABEL MOUNTPOINT
loop0 squashfs 4K /snap/bare/5
loop1 squashfs 63.4M /snap/core20/1974
loop2 squashfs 63.7M /snap/core20/2434
loop3 squashfs 73.9M /snap/core22/1722
loop4 squashfs 73.9M /snap/core22/1748
loop5 squashfs 274.8M /snap/firefox/5561
loop6 squashfs 258M /snap/firefox/5701
loop7 squashfs 349.7M /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/143
loop8 squashfs 505.1M /snap/gnome-42-2204/176
loop9 squashfs 516M /snap/gnome-42-2204/202
loop10 squashfs 91.7M /snap/gtk-common-themes/1535
loop11 squashfs 12.2M /snap/snap-store/1216
loop12 squashfs 12.3M /snap/snap-store/959
loop13 squashfs 53.3M /snap/snapd/19457
loop14 squashfs 44.4M /snap/snapd/23545
loop15 squashfs 452K /snap/snapd-desktop-integration/83
loop16 squashfs 568K /snap/snapd-desktop-integration/253
loop17 squashfs 64.4M /snap/sublime-text/187
loop18 squashfs 64.4M /snap/sublime-text/196
PNY CS900 2TB SSD sda 1.8T
├─sda1 1M
├─sda2 vfat 513M /boot/efi
└─sda3 ext4 1.8T /
My Passport 0730 sdb 931.5G
hp DVD RW AD-7701H sr0 1024M
sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdb returns:
smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-6.8.0-52-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Elements / My Passport (USB, AF)
Device Model: WDC WD10TMVW-11ZSMS1
Serial Number: WD-WXR1AB037274
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 1ae3abe13
Firmware Version: 01.01A01
User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 5200 rpm
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s
Local Time is: Sat Feb 8 22:01:04 2025 EST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Status command failed: scsi error unsupported field in scsi command
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Warning: This result is based on an Attribute check.
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (22200) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 255) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x7035) SCT Status supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 197 192 051 Pre-fail Always - 63
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 216 150 021 Pre-fail Always - 2200
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 097 097 000 Old_age Always - 3166
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 192 192 140 Pre-fail Always - 166
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 182 181 000 Old_age Always - 175
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 098 098 000 Old_age Always - 2023
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 524
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 143
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 197 197 000 Old_age Always - 9153
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 110 103 000 Old_age Always - 40
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 195 158 000 Old_age Always - 5
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 1
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
NOTABLE: smartctl diagnostic returned:
SMART Status command failed: scsi error unsupported field in scsi command
