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Here I thought I hard found some thing nice. I even wrote about in our newsletter and told everyone about it. Guess I will have to write next month to say how bad this sucks!
I spent all day making folders and putting files in them the Bam! Could not see anything. Went to another computer samething. Took hard drive off of Pogoplug put it on another computer and can see everything. Put it back on nothing. So I took another hard drive works fine on Pogplug. This dam thing
Screwed up hard drive File Structure. Having to reformat it an spend another day starting all over. Thanks Pogoplug! One more time and it's going back!
April 16, 2010 4:39 PM
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April 16, 2010 5:36 PM
What size hard drive? How powered? WD 320 black 2.5 laptop drive. USB powered
What file system did you format it with? NTFS
How did you create the folders? From laptop of wireless network
what operating system was it running? Windows 7
Pogoplug through the Drive app or the Web app? web app
"Bam!" suggests some event? Just gone for no reason
You could see "Files shared with me" But not the main drive."WDC WD32 00BEKT-00F3T0"
I took it off of Pogoplug and could see everything fine. I then coppied all the files to another hard drive and it had the same problem. So i formatted the drive and works just fine. For some strange reason the pogoplug screwed up hard drive file structure.
Bad thing was I had to spend a few hours putting folders make in and the files for each of them.
April 16, 2010 7:18 PM
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April 16, 2010 7:54 PM
No the Bam point is when it stopped working when it was connected to Pogoplug.
I took it off then of the pogoplug and wanted to see if the drive was working right so I plugged it into a computer and the files were there and ok. Put it back onto the pogoplug and still same problem. Could only see "Files shared with me" but none of the other folders. Why I say the file structure was screwed up was because it would not work right when connected to pogoplug. After I formatted it everything was fine.
April 17, 2010 2:27 AM
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April 17, 2010 3:52 PM
Just bought pogoplug very happy,had issue when i renamed drives and ejected them files would not show,would not remount to pogo but ran checkdisk and did repair all was and is well deleted .cedata file,formatting was jumping the gun.Windows told me i needed to reformat but acronis disk suite said files where there just not able to access them now all is well.So far very very very happy with pogoplug,but have one question with 4 usb hubs can i connect 4 dual drive external cases and run 8 drives. thanks
April 17, 2010 8:35 PM
Yea just did it again.Had usb thumb drive and a hard drive plugged in and it corrupted both of them. Talked to Chris and he is going to send another one out Mon. or Tue.
April 17, 2010 8:42 PM
When it did it this time when i took both drives and put on my computer this is what it said. "The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable" So like I said from the start there is some thing wrong with the pogoplug. I didn't jump the gun. But I should of waited until I cooled down to write about it.
April 18, 2010 2:54 AM
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April 18, 2010 10:02 AM
I will let you all know how things go. Might be fun to figure most times but not when I have 20 or more people a day trying to get some files from us. We went this way from using our server because it was a lot easier. Hope I just got a bad one and things work out for us.
April 20, 2010 9:22 PM
Just a reminder to everyone without SSH chops, an alternative to safe eject or command line unmount of your attached drives is to power down your computer with USB drive still attached (of course, wait for disk activity to settle down), physically detach the USB drive, and you should be able to retrieve your data from your drive.
-christopher
bidmead said:
Having said that, judging from other topics here there does seem to be a problem with drives becoming invisible suddenly and mysteriously. Unfortunately (if I've got this right) once a Pogoplug drive has vanished from the Drive App and the Web View the only way to dismount it properly (if it is still mounted) is by sshing into the Pogoplug. The need to do this runs counter to CE's user-friendly design goal, so in that sense you may be dead right when you say "there is some thing wrong with the pogoplug".
--
Chris
Just a reminder to everyone without SSH chops, an alternative to safe eject or command line unmount of your attached drives is to power down your computer with USB drive still attached (of course, wait for disk activity to settle down), physically detach the USB drive, and you should be able to retrieve your data from your drive.
-christopher
April 20, 2010 10:56 PM
Chris Louie said:bidmead said: Having said that, judging from other topics here there does seem to be a problem with drives becoming invisible suddenly and mysteriously. Unfortunately (if I've got this right) once a Pogoplug drive has vanished from the Drive App and the Web View the only way to dismount it properly (if it is still mounted) is by sshing into the Pogoplug. The need to do this runs counter to CE's user-friendly design goal, so in that sense you may be dead right when you say "there is some thing wrong with the pogoplug". -- ChrisJust a reminder to everyone without SSH chops, an alternative to safe eject or command line unmount of your attached drives is to power down your computer with USB drive still attached (of course, wait for disk activity to settle down), physically detach the USB drive, and you should be able to retrieve your data from your drive. -christopher
I think I find myself in a similar situation with the complete loss of access to the files on the drive as the end result.
Can we have a walk through of the SSH disconnect?
May I have some assistance with regaining access to my files? Pretty please?
April 21, 2010 1:21 AM
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April 21, 2010 2:34 AM
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April 21, 2010 3:44 PM
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Thanks for the walk through Chris.
SW version is 2.1.2
I have the client installed on OS X SL, Win7, and XP Pro physical machines.
I have 3 wall wart powered 1.5TB Free Agent Desk drives with NTFS file system.
The drive in question is a Baracuda 7200.11 SATA drive.
I've performed the open pogo install from the Terminal utility in OS X, but that was not in use.
My Linux Fu is nonexistent :( Pogoplug was/is intended to be my gateway drug :)
Regards,
Dan
April 21, 2010 3:59 PM
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April 21, 2010 9:11 PM
The Windows box asks if I want to format the drive, OS X can't mount the drive, and The Pogoplug interface shows an empty drive. I've not taken any action to alter the drive. My assumption at this point is that I will need to use a Live CD tool of some sort to recover the files, so I've removed the drive from the case. Is this course of action you would recommend?
Regards,
Dan
April 22, 2010 2:39 AM
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May 8, 2010 11:29 PM
Add my name to the list of people who have had their Disk File structure totally mucked up by Pogplug. It's happened to me twice. I'm presently in the middle of a third huge and slow upload (18 hours and counting) .
No idea what caused the first crash ("Bam" if that's the word we are using), the second one happened when I was simply making a new folder on the disk. I tried to repair with Disk Utility (Mac) no luck and Disk Warrior can't be run because the drive doesn't show up as a mounted drive when plugged into the computer direct. Only option - reformat and start all over again.
I'm really having second thoughts about the reliability of this whole Pogoplug system - pity about that, it seemed like a good idea at the time!
May 9, 2010 2:33 PM
updated: May 9, 2010 2:34 PM
I don't think modern disk drives are "designed to fail", but you have to expect them to wear out and gradually go out of alignment. Alignment problems are becoming more likely to happen as drive manufacturers try to crammed more and more data into a small area.
Gibson Research has a tool called SpinRite that can help recover disk sectors from drives that are going bad. However, it won't help restructure file systems that are corrupted.
Pogoplug supports so many file formats — do some work better than others? I'd expect the native Linux format might be the best choice or perhaps FAT32 because it has better support across platforms.
May 9, 2010 6:56 PM
More problems... Setup Kingston 32GB flash drive, copy documents folder to this, seems to go OK but when it finishes Pogoplug advises "Copy Failed". Decide to reformat Kingston but Disk Utility can no longer see it. End result - one completely useless drive due to Pogoplug. Be warned!!
May 9, 2010 11:21 PM
SpinRite is a bit long in the tooth in the SATA age. I used the above recommended TestDisk/PhotoRec combo, but strangely I recovered layers of stuff going back eons ago. Fortunately in the process of all this I found I had a backup of the 285+ gigs of data I was worried about loosing. Be warned that PhotoRec will recover most files but you will have to identify and rename them ALL. My drive didn't go bad - the pogoplug was slow to respond and when I interrupted it I triggered the loss. IMO the pogoplug should never leave the drive in a vulnerable state. Hopefully the devs are of the same line of thought.
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