[CentOS] Errors on an SSD drive

Thu Aug 10 14:50:09 UTC 2017
hw <hw at gc-24.de>

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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> On 08/09/2017 01:48 PM, hw 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:
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>>> [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?
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> This is a Centos7-armv7hl install which is done by dd the provided image onto a drive, so really can't alter the provided file systems much other than to resize them.  What I have is:

Perhaps there´s some incompatibility on this architecture.

BTW, that the cables sit tight doesn´t mean they are good.


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> Model: ATA KINGSTON SV300S3 (scsi)
> Disk /dev/sda: 240GB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: msdos
> Disk Flags:
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> Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system     Flags
>  1      1049kB  1075MB  1074MB  primary  ext3
>  2      1075MB  2149MB  1074MB  primary  linux-swap(v1)
>  3      2149MB  240GB   238GB   primary  ext4
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>> If the errors persist, replace the drive.  I´d 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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