On 10/03/2014 12:01 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
I am running Fedora 20 (updated from 19) and have started having
problems with an external SATA disk. It's connected through a USB
adapter.
Smartd recognizes it but I see repeated errors in the journal about
not being able to update smart data on the disk.
A few days ago, (around the time I updated 19 to 20) the disk after
not being used for a while would become unresponsive with attempts to
access the directories on it resulting in hangs.
Yet if I reboot after turning the power to the disk off and on again
everything is fine for a while.
fsck reports the two partitions on the disk are fine and if I run
a SMART short test it passes.
This is the sort of error I get if I reboot without cycling the power
Oct 03 11:09:54 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Job
dev-disk-by\x2duuid-d8088c90\x2db24c\x2d483d\x2d8865\x2d4fdf6ac2b6a8.device/start
Oct 03 11:09:54 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Timed out waiting
for device dev-disk-by\x2duuid-d8088c90\x2db24c\x2d483d\x2d8865\x2d
Oct 03 11:09:54 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Dependency failed
for /home/frank/external.
Oct 03 11:09:54 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Startup finished in
2.097s (kernel) + 1.926s (initrd) + 1min 31.930s (userspace) = 1m
Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: usb 2-6: USB
disconnect, device number 4
Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain smartd[433]: Monitoring 1 ATA
and 0 SCSI devices
Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb]
Unhandled error code
Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb]
Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: Result:
hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB:
Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: Read(10): 28 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 08 00
Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: end_request: I/O error,
dev sdb, sector 0
Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: Buffer I/O error on
device sdb, logical block 0
Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel:
ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed.
Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: Dev sdb: unable to read
RDB block 0
Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: sdb: unable to read
partition table
Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] READ
CAPACITY failed
Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb]
Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: Result:
hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense
not available.
Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb]
Attached SCSI disk
Oct 03 11:10:42 localhost.localdomain systemd-udevd[1147]:
inotify_add_watch(7, /dev/sdb, 10) failed: No such file or directory
Anyone has any ideas ?
Thanks
Been there and done that. I was pleagued
with this problem for many weeks until I
kicked the drives off of usb.
USB is the poorest type of connection for disk drives.
That's why I use an eSATA PcCard with 2 eSATA-3 ports
and connect the drive to the eSATA ports.
This of course requires that you have an enclosure which
provides eSATA ports.
After I did this, all such problems as you report totally disappeared.
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