help with MY Book external drive

[AN]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:13:21AM +0000, AN wrote:
>> I just purchased a WD MY Book external USB disk, I reformatted in UFS and
>> created a filesystem with sysinstall.  I was able to put data on it
>> successfully, however overnite I had a power failure.  Now I am unable to
>> mount the drive.  The blue light is on, so it seems to be getting power
>> but the computer does not see it when I plug in the USB cable.  I can not
>> run fsck because the system says /dev/da0s1d no such file or directory.
>> I tried da0s1, da0s1c, and da0s1d no luck.  I also tried to plug the disk
>> into another machine, same thing the disk is not recognized.  Is it
>> totally gone?    Any help to recover this disk would be really
>> appreciated.
>
> Possibly, especially if you plug it into another machine and experienced
> the same problem.  When you plug the drive in, does the FreeBSD kernel
> output anything?  If so, what all does it output?
>
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>

Hi Jeremy:

No messages from the kernel, nothing when I plug it in.  It is not making 
any 'clicking' sounds that you usually get when a drive dies.  I just 
don't get it.  Maybe a power spike crushed it, but if so why is the light 
on?

Thanks