On 08/10/14 19:23, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
Greg Freemyer schrieb:
I'd give odds the drive is fine and the sata cable is bad. Whenever I see that "hard resetting link" message, the cable is my first suspect.
What actual errors does the drive report (smartctl --log)?
If the drive was the source of the problem it will have logged it internally.
After having backed up my data I ran the long self test. No errors logged. So I'll give the cable a try. Thanks for hint!
Meant to respond to this re the cable yesterday but other things got in the way...... Have a look at the cable to see if it is a red coloured one in which case the probability of it having to be replaced are high. At one point I was running another distro. and while on it's mail list I read a comment by a tech who was an "old hand" at the game. His comment was that cables with red plastic coatings were causing problems but he couldn't figure out why until one of his own computers "went down" and he actually decided to "pull" one of these cables apart. What he found was that the copper wires inside the cable had "rotted" away - caused by some chemicals used in the production of the cables. Not an urban myth, BTW. I can see such cables available at stores which sell components at the "lower end of the market" and always avoid them. (This advice is along the lines of what occurred some years ago when cables became available which made it *so* much more easy to connect HDDs to the m/board because the cables where longer. The only hassle was that these cables were too long and caused signal-bounce which caused corruption of data written to/read from the HDDs. The designed max length of cables was (?)18 inches but the new ones were longer thus causing the data corruption.) [pruned] BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.1 & kernel 3.16.3-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org