From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P6Yso-0003GP-0X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 01:14:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 37F2CE0762; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 01:13:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECC4DE0762 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 01:13:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so127812ewy.40 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:13:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=8aPMmv808faXLxgPhd1Cy9bRvpgIwsfuvgoSxAT76ho=; b=MGJGVIqurjvuhPQ437ZUA40haJWwg8aq2c4X6JKUcijZkw0/Upm2xpixcj5YD6efnJ E+V6Td/L2FrLcjoxy6Y4+tDphtRXJL87HgQwvf0z+ln3xwlDUwZBAPAPHpuhukRzttdu gmyb/xV4GI9K6CGP1BA52V8KAEa58WK6qlsjM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=IAUw+8zt1vgwUhmBmIcmTNuk26D26j/5o3yrEaZcm9quSkaKebI7PntXMbESKglrCl Nces6IiSi2P2ukYL8rZVO6wyyBWnE9ju8dGg2X5c2RKjUBRgFvSTnLCLH3IxVQkmFb6m i8IA5R0wBpw4nC7ACLNp8FmII8icRKCu3HMBk= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.2.209 with SMTP id 17mr828810ebk.37.1287105189351; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:13:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.29.71 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:13:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:13:08 -0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 From: Daniel da Veiga To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 293f7b35-b8ea-4aaa-b5de-73f23698eec6 X-Archives-Hash: c9c7b4c396c39760d745baf9f30506b5 On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 13:41, Paul Hartman wrote: > 2010/10/9 Fatih T=FCmen : >> Hi, >> >> When I ran eix hdf command, all of a sudden my usb drive started >> making weird noises. I only have ccache, distfiles and packaes >> directories on sda2, the usb disk partition. I don't know why eix >> waked up the disk. Eix hung there non-responding for a moment as the >> disk kept making noises, so I interrupted the task. Immediately >> checked the logs[0] and umounted the device as a reflex. > > Hi, > > I recently had USB external hdd that started to make clicking noises > and beeping sounds and I couldn't access it at all anymore. I thought > "oh no, click of death"... but I also noticed very faint high-pitch > sound coming from the power supply. I contacted the hdd manufacturer > and they sent me a new power supply for free. Everything worked > perfectly after replacing it. > > In the past, with the same drive in fact, I also had problem with the > USB link dropping, which was causing disk corruption. I tried a > different USB cable but same problem persisted. Who knows if this was > also caused by the bad power supply, or USB hub overload on my > computer. I had about 10 USB devices attached at the time. I removed > some and moved around to spread the load out a bit and it worked fine > after that. > > Since replacing the power supply, I've used the same hdd with 2 other > computers and haven't have any issues so far. > Also had PSU problems with external drives a while ago, I asked a friend to modidy a full ATX computer PSU for me so it could power two drives, never had problems again (the psu that comes with those things is just too cheap, tend to overheat and fail a lot). I never use 2.5 HDD USB enclosures for constant workload with no cooling at all (most cases for 2.5 drives have no cooler and rely on heat transfer from an aluminum body, wich is simply unreliable). On the other hand, I had a new, cooled 3.5 HDD fail on me after two days operation. It was promptly replaced by Seagate. The dread click of death... Of course I tested it on a SATA controller before calling it dead. Funny story. I had one drive that failed once (clicking) and I read somewhere to "cool" it. So I put the damn thing on the refrigerator, took it out after a while (it was so cold!), plugged in, and what the heck, it started working again and I was able to backup all of the data. After that it worked for a long time before failing again, lol. Now I always "cool" a clicking drive before replacing it. True story. --=20 Daniel da Veiga