My Passport for Mac suddenly stopped working

I have a Mac Book Pro bought reconditioned in November, updated to most recent OS.

It was working until yesterday. The problem may be due to unclean disconnect.

The problem first showed up with timemachine failure to create directory.

I restarted with the drive connected and it was just not connected.

I plugged it back in, the power light flashed for a while. Now powerlight runs constantly.

Doesn’t mount so I can check it.

I am more experienced with Windows and Linux software new to Macintosh

this is response to mount

/dev/disk1 on / (hfs, local, journaled)

devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)

map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse)

map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)

localhost:/0aOqwOPJpvlFf6g0Jd2Plg on /Volumes/MobileBackups (mtmfs, nosuid, read-only, nobrowse)

Christophers-MacBook-Pro:~ christophernoyes$