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.
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