On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 23:40:10 -0400 Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net> wrote:
> On 27/07/15 10:08 PM, Celejar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a fairly new external USB disk that frequently throws errors. > > When these occur, the disk becomes partially or totally inaccessible. > > Even worse, when I try to umount it, the umount hangs indefinitely, > > using 100% of one of my cpu cores. I haven't yet found any way to > > recover short of hard booting (long press of the power button) the > > system (soft booting - halt, reboot, poweroff - hang). smart seems to ... > I've had similar problems with USB3 drives which seemed to crop up while > reading the disk. They were OK on writing. It also required a reboot to > correct. > > I still haven't resolved it - it's on a headless machine in a remote > location so I wanted to try a BIOS upgrade next time I am out that way. > My workaround was to connect the drives to USB2 ports instead of USB3. > Not ideal but it's working for now. The drive is USB3, but all my ports are only USB2 to begin with. What really bugs me is the 100% CPU utilization. Is this considered a driver bug - shouldn't the driver be able to recover more gracefully for any sort of real world error condition? Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150728084245.4f564f7dba0017823518f...@gmail.com
