Hi!
First of all sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, if it is, please point me to a better suited channel!
Anyway I’ve got this old 2TB HDD attached to a rpi 4b, it worked flawlessly until now, the last few days it started disconnecting randomly…
If i reboot it mounts back again.
This is the df output:
/dev/sdb1 1.8T 535G 1.2T 31% /mnt/2tb
And this is sudo dmesg | grep sdb (the device is sdb ofc).
[ 14.970908] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 3907029168 512-byte logical blocks: (2.00 TB/1.82 TiB)
[ 14.978857] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 4096-byte physical blocks
[ 14.984484] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 14.989382] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[ 14.989684] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 15.044802] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Preferred minimum I/O size 4096 bytes
[ 15.051196] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Optimal transfer size 33553920 bytes not a multiple of preferred minimum block size (4096 bytes)
[ 15.065585] sdb: sdb1
[ 15.068403] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[ 22.631983] EXT4-fs (sdb1): recovery complete
[ 22.660922] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Quota mode: none.
The device has an external power supply of its own, so it’s not a power issue… This setup worked for a couple of years.
I cannot see anything wrong here, pheraps is the HDD which is going bad?
I’m not sure how to get the
Nfrom session history, nor how to check my session history…
journalctl --list-boots will list all sessions stored in the journal.
The output is from yesterday, when the device stopped working correctly.
I’m not familiar with linux kernel, but I can see there is definitely something wrong…
The HDD (old) is attached to a USB hub (new), I tried switching port of the hub but the same issue happened again, if I try to mount it with
sudo mount /mnt/2tb, it says it is already mounted:
Those messages tell you what’s happening, there’s an unrecoverable error on the USB bus connecting the hard drive which is causing filesystem errors when writes fail. Diagnose that, lose the hub first and directly connect the drive to the pi, then try replacing the cable that attaches the drive if the error still occurs. I’d also check with people in the rpi community in case there are any known issues with USB on your model. There may be some pi specific USB firmware things you can do to increase reliability.
You can also try disabling UASP for the drive in case BOT transfer somehow stabilizes the connection. You’ll lose performance but that helps with some USB storage bridges.
Some USB storage bridges are just unreliable under Linux and crash under load, your last option is to buy another drive enclosure that’s tested and known to work correctly. I went through like 5 USB/NVMe enclosures looking for one that worked properly, that whole space is a compatibility mess.
