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e3k
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 Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 7:03 pm Post subject: [weird but possibly solved] strange SSD behavior |
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i have a GIGABITE 512GB SDD as primary drive now for 1 year.
suddenly at boot got 'boot device not found'. in bios the drive was recognized. did a multiple soft/hard reboots with the same result.
booted KNOPPIX to take a look. the drive was listed with lsblk but fdisk did show no partitions and space = 2MB.
smartctl did output:
| Code: | === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
Read SMART Self-test Log failed: scsi error badly formed scsi parameters |
after unplug/plug of the power and SATA cable the disk was recognized correctly and started to work correctly.
SDD is a new technology to me and i did not see something similar before. did you? any thoughts?
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Could be that the cables (electrical connectivity) were a little loose and this was fixed when you unplugged/replugged.
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| Anon-E-moose wrote: | | Could be that the cables (electrical connectivity) were a little loose and this was fixed when you unplugged/replugged. |
yes this is what possibly was the issue. but why did the system recognize a 500GB SSD as 2MB??? in my previous experiences it was either working fine or not at all. is this some new feature of SSDs?
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I've never seen that particular behavior, but the reason I mention the connectivity is that if it only got some of the data being passed or it got mangled due to connectivity it might explain that behavior.
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aftermath: now the hdd went again invisible in BIOS. had to replug to other SATA port. also i had issues when burning DVDs. after repluging that too some other SATA port it did burn fine.
seems that 10y+ motherboard is slowly degrading now and i will have to do a PC upgrade next months...
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