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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory external USb hard disk reading problem Post 302268112 by flakblas on Monday 15th of December 2008 04:19:33 AM
Old 12-15-2008
With external drives it's very possible that the drive itself is ok but the enclosure circuitry is going bad. Either way, your best bet at recovering the data is to try to pull the drive out of the enclosure (this will most likely void any warranties) and connect it inside a computer. If you still can't access it, try a recovery program like SpinRite. Either way, as soon as you gain access to the data, pull it off. And don't keep wasting time mounting and unmounting the drive since if it's going bad, this will just run it into the ground more. Good luck.
 

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SDL::Cdrom(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     SDL::Cdrom(3)

NAME
SDL::Cdrom - a SDL perl extension for managing CD-ROM drives SYNOPSIS
use SDL::Cdrom; $cdrom = SDL::Cdrom->new(0); $cdrom->play(); EXPORTS
o "CD_NUM_DRIVES". DESCRIPTION
Create a new SDL::Cdrom object. The passed $id is the number of the drive, whereas 0 is the first drive etc. use SDL::Cdrom; my $drive => SDL::Cdrom->new($id); METHODS
CD_NUM_DRIVES() Returns the number of CD-ROM drives present. name() Returns the system dependent name of the CD-ROM device. status() Return the status of the drive. play() Play a track. pause() Pause the playing. resume() Resume the playing. stop() Stop the playing. eject() Eject the medium in the drive. id() Return the ID of the drive. num_tracks() Return the number of tracks on the medium. track() Returns the track description current() Return the current played track number. current_frame() Return the current frame. AUTHORS
David J. Goehrig Documentation by Tels <http://bloodgate.com/>. SEE ALSO
perl SDL::Mixer SDL::App. perl v5.12.1 2010-07-05 SDL::Cdrom(3)
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