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

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to emerge rust. It crashed. Now I get circular dependencies. Help!

2025-03-30 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 16:04:04 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > While updating my old machine (a 1st generation Ryzen), I was 42 minutes > through the emerge of rust when it crashed. This is probably due to the > known hardware error in early Ryzen chips. > So I tried > # e

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

[gentoo-user] Trying to emerge rust. It crashed. Now I get circular dependencies. Help!

2025-03-30 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Gentoo. While updating my old machine (a 1st generation Ryzen), I was 42 minutes through the emerge of rust when it crashed. This is probably due to the known hardware error in early Ryzen chips. So I tried # emerge --resume , which gave me a few lines of emerge messages followed by

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 >

[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