[mythtv-users] Recording drive disappeared...fine on reboot

Ian Evans dheianevans at gmail.com
Tue Aug 27 20:49:56 UTC 2013


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 08/27/2013 04:24 PM, Ian Evans wrote:
>
>> Turned on the TV to discover my recording drive had disappeared overnight.
>>
>> I did a sudo reboot and was presented with the message:
>>
>> "the disk drive for /storage1 is not ready or present"
>>
>> I hit 'S' to skip mounting. The system couldn't see the physical drive at
>> all. I shut down and waited a minute before powering up again. The BIOS
>> detected the drive, fsck did not run automatically, mythbuntu loaded and
>> shazam, all my recordings were there.
>>
>> What could have caused the drive to just disappear overnight, but then
>> reappear with a hard shutdown? Are there any utilities I should be running
>> to see what's what? Any system logs to check?
>>
>> Thanks for any advice.
>>
>
> Last time I had a similar problem it was a bad cable.  I've had this on
> both PATA and SATA cables.
>
> You may also want to check to see if SMART logs say anything.
>

Thanks for the quick reply. This is what it said for this drive (a 2 yr old
Green)

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED
WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   200   200   051    Pre-fail
Always       -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   253   253   021    Pre-fail
Always       -       975
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       20
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail
Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   200   200   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   072   072   000    Old_age
Always       -       21077
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   253   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   100   253   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       18
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age
Always       -       10
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   001   001   000    Old_age
Always       -       1007688
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   113   105   000    Old_age
Always       -       37
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   200   200   000    Old_age
Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0008   200   200   000    Old_age
Offline      -       0
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