I have a damaged HDD that I'm trying to image.
I connected it using an external USB to SATA cable to my pc, and here is the issue, it is damaged, so after I'm reading a few bytes from it, it becomes unavailable, basically it freezes, until I manually remove the usb and plug it back in, then I can read a few more bytes from it until it freezes again.
I figured that if I can somehow automate the restart process, that right now can only be done by me physically unplugging the usb cable, I can slowly image the entire drive (or at least enough that I can recover my fiancee's most important files).
I've been looking for a way to cut off power to the usb, in order to incorporate it in a script that uses dd to image the drive into a file, but things like
echo "0" > "/sys/bus/usb/devices/usbX/power/autosuspend"
echo "auto" > "/sys/bus/usb/devices/usbX/power/level"
(from Controlling a USB power supply (on/off) with Linux)
didn't work.
Is there still a way, using any language, to turn off power to a usb port from linux?
