Re: [Soekris] net6501, Linux, SSD/kernel/hardware failure?

2012-05-31 Thread Chris Wilson
Hi David, On Tue, 29 May 2012, David Burgess wrote: > That said, I purchased a 128GB Petrol to upgrade a client's laptop. > Less than a week later the thing had secure-erased itself. I wasn't > too bothered by it, after all, some percentage of anything is going to > fail at some point, and I'm no

Re: [Soekris] net6501, Linux, SSD/kernel/hardware failure?

2012-05-31 Thread Chris Wilson
Hi Chris, On Tue, 29 May 2012, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > The drive wasn't responding. It's likely to be the drive itself, not > some failure on the controller or magic in the wire. SSDs are not the > ultra-reliable machines they're made out to be, in my experience. The > firmware probably crash

Re: [Soekris] net6501, Linux, SSD/kernel/hardware failure?

2012-05-30 Thread David Burgess
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Chris Wilson wrote: > I'm testing my first net6501 with an OCZ Petrol SSD. Everything seemed OK, got > the OS installed, then I started getting checksum mismatches from rsync, then > I/O errors, and then the drive stopped working completely. I've used and deploy

Re: [Soekris] net6501, Linux, SSD/kernel/hardware failure?

2012-05-30 Thread Philippe Vanhaesendonck
On Wed, 30 May 2012 11:49:29 +0100 (BST), Chris Wilson wrote: > Thanks for that data point. What exact kernel are you running? Chris, I am using the the (almost) stock Debian Wheezy kernel which is Linux 3.2 I say 'almost', because I have to recompile to get pch_uart tty driver out of the way

Re: [Soekris] net6501, Linux, SSD/kernel/hardware failure?

2012-05-30 Thread Chris Wilson
Hi Philippe, On Tue, 29 May 2012, Philippe Vanhaesendonck wrote: > This probably does not help too much, but FYI I am running Debian Wheezy > on my net6501 with an OCZ Vertex-3 SSD, and no problem encountered so > far... Thanks for that data point. What exact kernel are you running? Cheers, C

Re: [Soekris] net6501, Linux, SSD/kernel/hardware failure?

2012-05-30 Thread Chris Wilson
Hi Bob, On Tue, 29 May 2012, Bob Bishop wrote: > On 29 May 2012, at 17:41, Chris Wilson wrote: > >> [...]So I suspect there's nothing wrong with the drive; it may be a firmware >> bug, >> but I was unable to apply firmware fixes using OCZ's updater for Linux. [etc] > > You are running the latest

Re: [Soekris] net6501, Linux, SSD/kernel/hardware failure?

2012-05-29 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Chris Wilson [chris-soek...@aptivate.org] wrote: > > But after a power off (not just a hard reset) the drive is fine again! > > Some people are seeing issues with Debian kernels (like this one) and > multiple > drives appearing to fail at the same time, but working fine after a reboot: > http:

Re: [Soekris] net6501, Linux, SSD/kernel/hardware failure?

2012-05-29 Thread Stephen J Alexander
As a matter of general troubleshooting, I'd recommend trying the drive in a PC (or other machine) running Linux, trying the same thing with a different hard drive with the Soekris board, and swapping out cables with new in both scenarios... with those errors, seems likely that the drive controller

Re: [Soekris] net6501, Linux, SSD/kernel/hardware failure?

2012-05-29 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, On 29 May 2012, at 17:41, Chris Wilson wrote: > [...]So I suspect there's nothing wrong with the drive; it may be a firmware > bug, > but I was unable to apply firmware fixes using OCZ's updater for Linux. [etc] You are running the latest firmware (3.12) so it's not that. -- Bob Bishop r.

Re: [Soekris] net6501, Linux, SSD/kernel/hardware failure?

2012-05-29 Thread Philippe Vanhaesendonck
This probably does not help too much, but FYI I am running Debian Wheezy on my net6501 with an OCZ Vertex-3 SSD, and no problem encountered so far... -- Philippe On 29/05/12 18:41, Chris Wilson wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm testing my first net6501 with an OCZ Petrol SSD. Everything seemed OK, got

[Soekris] net6501, Linux, SSD/kernel/hardware failure?

2012-05-29 Thread Chris Wilson
Hi all, I'm testing my first net6501 with an OCZ Petrol SSD. Everything seemed OK, got the OS installed, then I started getting checksum mismatches from rsync, then I/O errors, and then the drive stopped working completely. The rsync errors started like this: + rsync -avP --delete --exclude /de