[ARMedslack] File system on my Freeagent Dockstar got corrupted

[Thorsten Mühlfelder]

Am Fri, 6 May 2011 07:59:14 +0100 (BST)
schrieb Davide <louigi600 at yahoo.it>:

> This is probably not the cause of your problems but it's something
> you want to keep in mind anyway: Running non flash oriented journaled
> file-systems on flash based devices can ware them out very quickly

No that's not the problem because this is a Seagate Freeagent Go hard
disk.

> especially if you are using MLB flash based device with a typical
> 10000 cycle rewrite capability. To minimize damage on flash devices
> at least make sure you mount the file-system with noatime option to
> avoid rewriting an entire erase block just because something accessed
> a file.

The error message indicates that the USB part of the hard disk is
broken. Unfortunately I cannot open the USB case without damaging a
warranty seal, so I cannot save my data.
I have to find a Windows PC now to run the Seagate test tools. This is
mandatory for a warranty request.


> --- Ven 6/5/11, Thorsten Mühlfelder <thenktor at gmx.de> ha scritto:
> 
> > Da: Thorsten Mühlfelder <thenktor at gmx.de>
> > Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] File system on my Freeagent Dockstar got
> > corrupted A: armedslack at lists.armedslack.org
> > Data: Venerdì 6 maggio 2011, 01:29
> > Am Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:20:44 +0000
> > (GMT)
> > schrieb Stuart Winter <m-lists at biscuit.org.uk>:
> > 
> > > The problem could be anywhere -- perhaps take out the
> > disc from the
> > > usb caddy and put it onto a bare IDE interface and try
> > SMART?
> > > The disc or USB caddy could be faulty.
> > 
> > I'm quite sure now that the USB disk is faulty. After
> > running for some
> > month now a similiar error occured:
> > Dockstar was still running, the DSL connection was up and
> > it did route
> > to the internet. But all daemons apparently have crashed:
> > no ssh login
> > anymore, no dhcpd service and http server crashed, too.
> > 
> > When I plug the disk to my PC or notebook I'm getting these
> > messages
> > in /var/log/messages in an endless loop:
> > ay  5 20:54:33 pinkfloyd kernel: [  440.520511]
> > sd 15:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk
> > May  5 20:54:36 pinkfloyd kernel: [  442.989369]
> > sd 15:0:0:0: [sdd] Unhandled sense code
> > May  5 20:54:36 pinkfloyd kernel: [  442.989373]
> > sd 15:0:0:0: [sdd] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
> > May  5 20:54:36 pinkfloyd kernel: [  442.989376]
> > sd 15:0:0:0: [sdd] Sense Key : 0x3 [current] 
> > May  5 20:54:36 pinkfloyd kernel: [  442.989379]
> > sd 15:0:0:0: [sdd] ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x0
> > May  5 20:54:36 pinkfloyd kernel: [  442.989381]
> > sd 15:0:0:0: [sdd] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 41 73 4c 00 00
> > 07 00
> > May  5 20:54:39 pinkfloyd kernel: [  445.794887]
> > sd 15:0:0:0: [sdd] Unhandled sense code
> > May  5 20:54:39 pinkfloyd kernel: [  445.794890]
> > sd 15:0:0:0: [sdd] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
> > May  5 20:54:39 pinkfloyd kernel: [  445.794893]
> > sd 15:0:0:0: [sdd] Sense Key : 0x3 [current] 
> > May  5 20:54:39 pinkfloyd kernel: [  445.794896]
> > sd 15:0:0:0: [sdd] ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x0
> > May  5 20:54:39 pinkfloyd kernel: [  445.794898]
> > sd 15:0:0:0: [sdd] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 41 73 4c 00 00
> > 07 00
> > 
> > 
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