On Mon, 13 Feb 2017, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 06:18:30PM +0100, Mike wrote: > > Hi, with the Kernel 4.4.0-59 i got after the startup, Hardware Error Messages for my external USB-HDDs. > > The internal HDD ist not affected. I checked all external HDDs via smartctl and did a short selftest which finished without error. > > The error came up after i switched from XUbuntu 14.04 to 16.04 with a clean installation. > > The Bugtracker at redhat shows a similar issue: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1351305 > > > > Regards Mike > > > > OS: Xubuntu 16.04 > > > > Kernel: > > --------- > > Linux toshiba 4.4.0-59-generic #80-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 6 17:36:54 UTC 2017 i686 athlon i686 GNU/Linux > > and > > Linux toshiba 4.4.0-62-generic #83-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 18 14:09:55 UTC 2017 i686 athlon i686 GNU/Linux > > 4.4 is very old, any chance you can try 4.9 and even better yet, > 4.10-rc8? See the comments at teh end of the RedHat Bugzilla entry referenced above. IMO this is not a kernel problem, but a problem in the udisks2 program. More precisely, these errors have always occurred, but the kernel did not realize they were errors and did not report them until fairly recently. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html