[gentoo-user] USB NVMe connection problem

2025-04-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings, The journey continues... I recently bought a Ugreen USB-3 external NVMe housing and a Samsung 990 Pro 4TB SSD. They worked fine for a few weeks, including yesterday when I used it to back up my LAN server. Today, every attempt to connect it returns a dmesg error: "Read Capacity(10) fai

[OT} Re: [gentoo-user] USB NVMe connection problem

2025-03-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 30 March 2025 16:05:29 British Summer Time I wrote: > Can I justify starting again and spending yet more hundreds? I've taken the plunge and ordered new SSD and enclosure. I can't justify the cost of course, but this has been my life, ever since my first hardware maintenance course i

Re: [gentoo-user] USB NVMe connection problem

2025-03-30 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 30 March 2025 16:05:29 British Summer Time Peter Humphrey wrote: > I've a nasty feeling I damaged the SSD by applying too much force while > installing it. Cracked track, or something. If so, I don't feel I should > return it as faulty. > > [Slumps shoulders...] > > Can I justify star

Re: [gentoo-user] USB NVMe connection problem

2025-03-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 30 March 2025 14:19:47 British Summer Time Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 30 March 2025 13:45:09 British Summer Time Peter Humphrey wrote: --->8 > > sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Read Capacity(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_OK > > driverbyte=DRIVER_OK sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Illegal Request >

Re: [gentoo-user] USB NVMe connection problem

2025-03-30 Thread Thomas Schweikle
Any second USB NVMe disk housing available? If yes, test the disk out in there. If it works: you found out the disk housing is defective. If it does not work: it may be the disk. Do you have a second NVMe disk available? Switch disks. Then check if the second disk works with this maybe defective di

Re: [gentoo-user] USB NVMe connection problem

2025-03-30 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 30 March 2025 13:45:09 British Summer Time Peter Humphrey wrote: > Greetings, > > The journey continues... > > I recently bought a Ugreen USB-3 external NVMe housing and a Samsung 990 Pro > 4TB SSD. They worked fine for a few weeks, including yesterday when I used > it to back up my LA