[lug] SD write timeouts, drive appears to be fine

D. Stimits stimits at comcast.net
Sat Dec 22 20:42:50 MST 2018


Since it complained about buffer, perhaps it was RAM used to buffer outside of the disk. Have you run memtest86+ overnight?

> On December 22, 2018 at 7:37 PM "Jed S. Baer" <blug at jbaer.cotse.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 08:16:06 -0700
> DLWillson wrote:
> 
> > Nobody said badblocks, so I will
> 
> I ran badblocks on it. Zero reported.
> 
> I ran fsck on it, it's clean.
> 
> I've moved it to the other SATA controller, so I'll have to wait a bit,
> as the problem seems to repeat only every other day. But I'm doing a big
> file transfer onto the drive that's now where the other one was, so maybe
> I'll see something right away.
> 
> Yes, hard drives are very cheap these days. I'd actually prefer to see
> the finger point at the controller, as I'd rather replace the
> motherboard. Long story.
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