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

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/27/2013 04:49 PM, Ian Evans wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Michael T. Dean 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

What about the logs section, that lists the errors it's experienced 
recently?

Mike