Hi Jason and other LUV-ers, On Tue, Jan 3, 2023, at 15:49, Jason White via luv-main wrote: > On 3/1/23 14:09, Les Kitchen via luv-main wrote: >> To back what Duncan said, yes, it's always worthwhile trying a >> known good cable. May the Good Lord protect us from bad USB >> cables! > I connected it to a different port on the hub (further away from the > other cables), and had more success.
Good. Glad to hear that. >> What I was going to suggest is to use smartctl (from the >> smartmontools package, at least on Debian). You can investigate >> the SMART status, and even run self tests. > > Thank you for the reminder - I had forgotten one could run smartctl via USB. I should perhaps have mentioned that smartctl doesn't always work via USB — I guess it depends on arcana of the adapter, but it usually does, in my experience. > The short SMART self-test passed, and the btrfs scrub (thank you for > that suggestion as well) reported no errors. In addition, I was able to > complete an rsync process. > > I suspect the connection or the cable. Yeah. And, also Happy New Year to all! — Smiles, Les. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
