[CentOS] Errors on an SSD drive

Wed Aug 9 17:55:08 UTC 2017
Mark Haney <mark.haney at neonova.net>

To be honest, I'd not try a btrfs volume on a notebook SSD. I did that on a
couple of systems and it corrupted pretty quickly.  I'd stick with xfs/ext4
if you manage to get the drive working again.

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On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 1:48 PM, hw <hw at gc-24.de> wrote:

> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>> I am building a new system using an Kingston 240GB SSD drive I pulled
>> from my notebook (when I had to upgrade to a 500GB SSD drive).  Centos
>> install went fine and ran for a couple days then got errors on the
>> console.  Here is an example:
>>
>> [168176.995064] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#14 FAILED Result:
>> hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
>> [168177.004050] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#14 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 01 04 68 b0
>> 00 00 08 00
>> [168177.011615] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 17066160
>> [168487.534510] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#17 FAILED Result:
>> hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
>> [168487.543576] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#17 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 01 04 68 b0
>> 00 00 08 00
>> [168487.551206] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 17066160
>> [168787.813941] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#20 FAILED Result:
>> hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
>> [168787.822951] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#20 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 01 04 68 b0
>> 00 00 08 00
>> [168787.830544] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 17066160
>>
>> Eventually, I could not do anything on the system.  Not even a 'reboot'.
>> I had to do a cold power cycle to bring things back.
>>
>> Is there anything to do about this or trash the drive and start anew?
>>
>
> Make sure the cables and power supply are ok.  Try the drive in another
> machine
> that has a different controller to see if there is an incompatibility
> between
> the drive and the controller.
>
> You could make a btrfs file system on the whole device: that should say
> that
> a trim operation is performed for the whole device.  Maybe that helps.
>
> If the errors persist, replace the drive.  I悲 use Intel SSDs because they
> seam to have the least problems with broken firmwares.  Do not use SSDs
> with
> hardware RAID controllers unless the SSDs were designed for this
> application.
>
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