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I have the 8Gb SSD version of the AA1 and have been running Arch on it from pretty much since I bought it 12 months ago.
Now I'm afraid that the SSD is dying on me because I'm seeing lines in dmesg related to "ata2"-something (don't remember now...), pacman is screwing up with files missing and when I reboot the disk check fails and I get messages about heaps of inodes beeing faulty when I try to recover with fsck.ext2.
I even reinstalled the lot and at first everything seemed to be back to normal but... no. After a little use it started acting the same again.
I know that SSD's have a shorter life span than regular drives, but having taken a lot of precautions trying to keep the read/write actions low on the disk, I really thought it would last longer than a year.
Has anyone else been having problems with their SSD's or am I just unlucky?
Are there any utilities available to check the health of a SSD?
Last edited by antis (2009-07-21 08:21:42)
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Hello antis!
First of all:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_Aspire_One
What filesystem do you use? Do I see well 'ext2'? In last case you must try to rebuild it from tree, but it's the last case.
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Thanks for the answer. I've been through the wiki and have the system set up according to it, with a few modifications of my own.
The file system is ext2 and it became so bad that I couldn't even repair it after booting with a rescue stick.
So, I reinstalled and the problem was right there again, even after a fresh format and re-partition.
Now however, after a second reinstall, it has been running well for about a week.
It all feels very strange and all I really wanted to know was if any other ssd and AA1 users have experienced anything similar, but I guess I'm the only one this far. I hope it stays that way
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I don't have an AA1 but something similar happened to me a while ago and I don't have any clues to why, do you usually suspend/hibernate your pc or you just turn it off?
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I never suspend my computer. I think the bootup is so fast that a suspend is unnecessary, so I alway turn it off when I don't need it anymore.
Having said that, it can be left powered on for quite some time.
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i had regular problems with the sd card and ext2, file system corruption etcetc, so i swapped to ext3, will shorten the lifetime of it abit, but no corruption or anything, maybe give it a shot!
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