On a related note to my post just now about the new rig - this problem
eventually came back a few weeks later but we were in the middle of a
move and having a new baby so I did not have time to mess with it -
just had to suffer a long time! I ended up buying a used rig from a
buddy that was cast-o
Well I'm at a loss here- the problem appears to have gone away but I have
no real explanation. It could have been a poorly seated drive but I would
have expected worse problems with that.
I'm back to the configuration I started with and running for the better
part of a day with no issues
Well that was disappointing. Booted from a live Ubuntu USB and it took
about 8 hours to run badblocks on everything - nothing was found.
So next steps will be to try different SATA ports on the MoBo as someone
suggested.
I also have another similar horsepower computer I just bought from someone
yes, smartctl should give you more a lot more information. I would be
curious to see what smartctl reports.
On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:34 PM Alan McKay wrote:
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> Well looks like I got lucky with which one I took out first - the behavior
> went away
>
> They are Kingston drives and it looks lik
And if your motherboard has additional controllers you could try other
combinations of cabling for the SSDs. I've had weird problems with
particular sequences of drives.
On 2019-01-10 11:09 p.m., Ian! D. Allen wrote:
On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:33:50PM -0500, Alan McKay wrote:
Well looks like
On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:33:50PM -0500, Alan McKay wrote:
> Well looks like I got lucky with which one I took out first - the behavior
> went away
Make sure you switch drives and prove the other drive causes the problem.
The problem could be Linux mis-handling the RAID1 on those drives, which m
Well looks like I got lucky with which one I took out first - the behavior
went away
They are Kingston drives and it looks like their drive check tools only run
on Windows so I can't use those.
Any recommendations for Linux tools to check the drives?
I guess I start with the standard SMART tools
