TestDisk appears to do everything right, and does nothing
Posted: 30 Nov 2015, 01:37
I've had a Vantec dual-bay USB enclosure for 1.5 years, running in BIG/spanned mode. 1 HFS+ partition w/a GPT table.
A few days ago the partition vanished. I get a message to initialize the drive, and Disk Utility sees the 3.5TB disk properly but no partitions or volumes on it. The RAID manager for the enclosure has no warnings or errors, and from what I can tell the SMART data looks good too.
Tested on a Macbook Pro 2010 and 2012 with OS X 10.8.4 and 10.10.5. Same behavior.
TestDisk saw a partition that looked just right, I committed the updated table... and nothing ever changed, after multiple attempts and rebooting both the computer and power-cycling the storage. The analysis is always the same.
So I don't even understand if TestDisk is working properly (and what, for that matter, is the purpose of rebooting the machine). Can anyone shed light on this?
Log:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BySStt ... sp=sharing
A few days ago the partition vanished. I get a message to initialize the drive, and Disk Utility sees the 3.5TB disk properly but no partitions or volumes on it. The RAID manager for the enclosure has no warnings or errors, and from what I can tell the SMART data looks good too.
Tested on a Macbook Pro 2010 and 2012 with OS X 10.8.4 and 10.10.5. Same behavior.
TestDisk saw a partition that looked just right, I committed the updated table... and nothing ever changed, after multiple attempts and rebooting both the computer and power-cycling the storage. The analysis is always the same.
So I don't even understand if TestDisk is working properly (and what, for that matter, is the purpose of rebooting the machine). Can anyone shed light on this?
Log:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BySStt ... sp=sharing