[adding linux-scsi mailing list] On 06/09/2018 12:23 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Hey. > > I'm seeing these errors: > Jun 09 21:13:22 heisenberg kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Unaligned partial completion (resid=16, sector_sz=512) > Jun 09 21:13:22 heisenberg kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE > Jun 09 21:13:22 heisenberg kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 Sense Key : Medium Error [current] > Jun 09 21:13:22 heisenberg kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error > Jun 09 21:13:22 heisenberg kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 CDB: Read(16) 88 00 00 00 00 01 cd e6 de 40 00 00 00 e0 00 00 > Jun 09 21:13:22 heisenberg kernel: print_req_error: critical medium error, dev sdb, sector 7749426752 > Jun 09 21:13:31 heisenberg kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Unaligned partial completion (resid=12, sector_sz=512) > Jun 09 21:13:31 heisenberg kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE > Jun 09 21:13:31 heisenberg kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 Sense Key : Medium Error [current] > Jun 09 21:13:31 heisenberg kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error > Jun 09 21:13:31 heisenberg kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 CDB: Read(16) 88 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 59 60 00 00 01 00 00 00 > Jun 09 21:13:31 heisenberg kernel: print_req_error: critical medium error, dev sdb, sector 1333600 > Jun 09 21:13:53 heisenberg kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Unaligned partial completion (resid=12, sector_sz=512) > Jun 09 21:13:53 heisenberg kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE > Jun 09 21:13:53 heisenberg kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 Sense Key : Medium Error [current] > Jun 09 21:13:53 heisenberg kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error > Jun 09 21:13:53 heisenberg kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 CDB: Read(16) 88 00 00 00 00 00 c3 a2 56 80 00 00 01 00 00 00 > Jun 09 21:13:53 heisenberg kernel: print_req_error: critical medium error, dev sdb, sector 3282196096 > > (many of them) on a Seagate 8TB Archive HDD. > The disk is only a year old and barely used (since it's just one of the > backups of my main data disks - and the primary disk another Seagate > 8TB HDD broke just few days ago). > > I have connected them via USB/SATA bridge... and when I now started > copying from the backup (which is sdb) to a fresh HDD I started seeing > vast numbers of these errors. > > However, fsck, cp seem to do fine, and the data (as far as it has been > copied) seems good (I have sha512 sums of all of it). > > > Any ideas what "Unaligned partial completion" and these errors mean? > > > Thanks, > Chris. > -- ~Randy