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granra

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Registered: 2014-03-15

Posts: 8

Bad drive?

Hi.

I've been using Arch Linux on an on-board ssd chip in my laptop (soldered on to the motherboard) for a few months now. Yesterday I woke the laptop from sleep and started firefox but soon it froze and Arch Linux started to act... weird. So I thought to myself "I should try rebooting" and this is what greeted me. (Arch Linux is installed on sdb) There is another hdd drive in the laptop that still works.

I googled the error and most of the posts I found about it are either bad controller, bad cable or a bad drive. In one of the posts someone suggested running smartctl (which I ran from archiso):

smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-3.12.6-1-ARCH] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org[3]

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===

Vendor: /1:0:0:0

Product:

User Capacity: 600,332,565,813,390,450 bytes [600 PB]

Logical block size: 774843950 bytes

scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp_len=47 offset=50 bd_len=46

scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp_len=47 offset=50 bd_len=46

>> Terminate command early due to bad response to IEC mode page

A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.

I also booted up gparted live and viewed sdb and there were no partitions, as if they had just dissappeared.

Everything points to the ssd chip being broken, doesn't it?

Thanks.

Spider.007

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Registered: 2004-06-20

Posts: 1,175

Re: Bad drive?

I agree; this is a major hardware failure and will be a good reason to use your backups, and stop using that drive for any information you want to keep.

granra

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Registered: 2014-03-15

Posts: 8

Re: Bad drive?

I agree; this is a major hardware failure and will be a good reason to use your backups, and stop using that drive for any information you want to keep.

Well, unfortunately I don´t have a backup (lesson learned). I will have to make a few netctl profiles and systemd services again (yay!). All my important data (school assignments and such) are backed up on bitbucket though so that´s no problem.
But, fortunately my laptop is still in warranty so I can get it fixed.

Last edited by granra (2014-03-15 19:10:40)

granra

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Registered: 2014-03-15

Posts: 8

Re: Bad drive?

I just reinstalled Arch Linux to the hdd drive and everytime I boot it it takes really long since it spits out those error messages. Is there a way to disable a sata device in Arch since I don't get an option to do it in the bios?

Spider.007

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Registered: 2004-06-20

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Re: Bad drive?

You could have a look at http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions … iling-disk