Thread: fdisk: unable to read /dev/sdc: Input/output error

hi, all:

16giga sd card dead. environment: ubuntu 12.04

phenomenon:
1)

code:

pei@pei-ga-870a-ud3:/dev$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdc fdisk: unable read /dev/sdc: input/output error

2)

code:

pei@pei-ga-870a-ud3:/dev$ ls -l sd* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,  0 aug 15 02:39 sda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,  1 aug 15 01:17 sda1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,  2 aug 15 02:39 sda2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,  5 aug 15 01:17 sda5 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,  6 aug 15 02:39 sda6 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 aug 15 02:39 sdb brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 17 aug 15 01:17 sdb1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 32 aug 15 03:05 sdc

only sdc, no sdc1


3) gparted not able show details of /dev/sdc, namely, there nothing related /dev/sdc.

4)

code:

cat /var/log/kern.log

gives

aug 15 03:39:36 pei-ga-870a-ud3 kernel: [ 8502.642244] sd 21:0:0:0: [sdc] unhandled sense code
aug 15 03:39:36 pei-ga-870a-ud3 kernel: [ 8502.642254] sd 21:0:0:0: [sdc] result: hostbyte=invalid driverbyte=driver_sense
aug 15 03:39:36 pei-ga-870a-ud3 kernel: [ 8502.642264] sd 21:0:0:0: [sdc] sense key : medium error [current]
aug 15 03:39:36 pei-ga-870a-ud3 kernel: [ 8502.642274] sd 21:0:0:0: [sdc] add. sense: unrecovered read error
aug 15 03:39:36 pei-ga-870a-ud3 kernel: [ 8502.642285] sd 21:0:0:0: [sdc] cdb: read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
aug 15 03:39:36 pei-ga-870a-ud3 kernel: [ 8502.642305] end_request: critical target error, dev sdc, sector 0
aug 15 03:39:36 pei-ga-870a-ud3 kernel: [ 8502.642315] buffer i/o error on device sdc, logical block 0

please have sd card come life.....

cheers
pei

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