Slackware 14.2 USB SSD failure
by telemeister from LinuxQuestions.org on (#531YF)
I am experiencing strange behaviour handling a Solid State USB disk
which seems peculiar to slackware 14.2
I have several slackware machines and the drive has been fine on earlier versions of slackware. As I have progressively upgraded the three machines, I have seen the same behaviour once I do the upgrade.
(The device still work fine on a machine still running 14.1)
What happens is that after I mount the drive it is good for about
10 minutes. Then it is not properly accessible. An "ls" will sometimes show some of the files but not all. Eventually it shows nothing.
At that point I can usually unmount it, but I cannot then
remount it. I get
mount: /dev/sdb1 is not a valid block device
If I pull the device out and reinsert then I can remount it.
There is nothing in /var/log/messages to coincide with the time the device goes bad.
Because I have seen the same thing each time I upgraded to 14.2 I am pretty convinced it is something in 14.2 that doesn't like the disk.
Has anyone seen this type of thing. Can anyone suggest other "tests" I can do , or Logfile I can look at when the problem happens.
Appreciate any input at all.
Steve
which seems peculiar to slackware 14.2
I have several slackware machines and the drive has been fine on earlier versions of slackware. As I have progressively upgraded the three machines, I have seen the same behaviour once I do the upgrade.
(The device still work fine on a machine still running 14.1)
What happens is that after I mount the drive it is good for about
10 minutes. Then it is not properly accessible. An "ls" will sometimes show some of the files but not all. Eventually it shows nothing.
At that point I can usually unmount it, but I cannot then
remount it. I get
mount: /dev/sdb1 is not a valid block device
If I pull the device out and reinsert then I can remount it.
There is nothing in /var/log/messages to coincide with the time the device goes bad.
Because I have seen the same thing each time I upgraded to 14.2 I am pretty convinced it is something in 14.2 that doesn't like the disk.
Has anyone seen this type of thing. Can anyone suggest other "tests" I can do , or Logfile I can look at when the problem happens.
Appreciate any input at all.
Steve