[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

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

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 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 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: