-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-10-07 13:12, Greg Freemyer wrote:
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)?
Notice that the syntax is not that simple: Telcontar:~ # smartctl --health /dev/sda smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-3.11.10-21-desktop] (SUSE RPM) Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED Telcontar:~ # smartctl --log /dev/sda smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-3.11.10-21-desktop] (SUSE RPM) Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org =======> INVALID ARGUMENT TO -l: /dev/sda =======> VALID ARGUMENTS ARE: error, selftest, selective, directory[,g|s], xerror[,N][,error], xselftest[,N][,selftest], background, sasphy[,reset], sataphy[,reset], scttemp[sts,hist], scttempint,N[,p], scterc[,N,M], devstat[,N], ssd, gplog,N[,RANGE], smartlog,N[,RANGE] <======= Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary Telcontar:~ # - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlQz7jQACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UHmQCfbXNJVVZcGP33luqWdNUAXLuU Nh0AoIS7ytgntS0mXdSkSm4Uo8qjR5EJ =mYRp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org