you need a space between -l and /dev/sda You'll probably also need sudo sticking on the front. I've tried everything the space, the sudo up front but still nothing happens I always get Result: hostbyte=0x01 driverbyte=0x00 sd 18:0:0:0: [sda] Sense not available. sd 18:0:0:0: [sda] Asking for cache ...

Read what you quoted from Dougie and compare with what you typed.... just a typing error sorry but I did type exactly what Dougie quoted pi@raspbmc:~$ fdisk -l/dev/sda fdisk: invalid option -- '/' Usage: fdisk [options] <disk> change partition table fdisk [options] -l <disk> list partition table(s)...

try fdisk -l /dev/sda # eff disk minus ell slash dee ee vee slash ess dee ay Invalid option... pi@raspbmc:~$ fdisk -l/dev/eda fdisk: invalid option -- '/' Usage: fdisk [options] <disk> change partition table fdisk [options] -l <disk> list partition table(s) fdisk -s <partition> give partition size(...

sudo fdisk -I gives me that pi@raspbmc:~$ sudo fdisk -1 fdisk: invalid option -- '1' Usage: fdisk [options] <disk> change partition table fdisk [options] -l <disk> list partition table(s) fdisk -s <partition> give partition size(s) in blocks Usage: fdisk [options] -l <disk> list partition table(s) ...

If Raspbmc understands the same commands as Raspbian, sudo fdisk -l should yield clues. sudo fdisk -I gives me that pi@raspbmc:~$ sudo fdisk -1 fdisk: invalid option -- '1' Usage: fdisk [options] <disk> change partition table fdisk [options] -l <disk> list partition table(s) fdisk -s <partition> gi...

The drive isn't dead, but I'm not familiar with raspbmc to know where to go from here. Its possible that its been formatted with EXT4 or something that windows can't see. Are you familiar with Administrative tools in Windows 7 ? Computer management and then disk management in there should yield som...

I was able to run dmesg using the Raspberry Pi directly here is what I get sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x01 driverbyte=0x00 sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Sense not available. sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Asking for cache data failed sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SC...

pluggy wrote:dmesg not dmegs....

Sorry that is what I mean.

When I click on run then type in dmegs and press enter nothing is happening...not sure why... Maybe because Linux is not really installed and only run on the USB key?

AFAIK most usb disk problems are power related , what kind of usb disk/caddy do you have . It seams unlikly the pi killed your disk , at worst some how the disk might have become corrupted . In linux you can look at the dmegs logs before/when/after you plugin in the 'bad' usb disk , this should giv...

Hello everyone, I just bought a new B+ yesterday and while playing around with it on RASPBMC, I tried plugging in one of my external HD to access my library thtough XBMC. However nothing happened and I did not seem to be able to access the content of the drive. I then unplugged it from the B+ and pl...