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

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Aug 27 20:38:57 UTC 2013


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.

Mike


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