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Hi,
So apparently I can't boot my PC on linux anymore. I get some kind of recovery mode.
I can't copy/paste in this mode (or at least I don't know how to) but amongst other things, it says
"failed command: read FPDMA QUEUED"
and
"Buffer I/O error on dev sdc1, logical block 7340064 async page read"
I checked the sata cable to make sure they were plugged in correctly. but I don't know what else to do. I'm using my windows dual boot atm.
Is it possible that my SSD is dead? Is there anything I can do?
Could I get some help please? :'(
You almost need to take a known working system and then install just the ssd to it and run s.m.a.r.t linux tests or the OEM's diag suite. Nothing in your current system can be trusted just yet.
Well I have no spare sata cable.
I tried to make a ubuntu usb to access the SSD but it fails trying to boot ubuntu.
I can't access the SSD through windows because I don't think it has a format windows could read.
And I have no other system to try the SSD on.
I think I'm gonna have to go see some profesionnals so they can take a look at it.
The only thing I did recently is use an air canister to remove some dust inside. Is it possible that that could have damaged something?
In some cases it is simply a matter of changing the SATA 3 cable to the SSD and making sure that the ends are firmly engaged. If your motherboard has SATA 3 ports, make sure you connect to one of those.
Also ensure that the cable is not kinked.
A replacent quality SATA 3 cable costs pennies. I would start there first and then run SMART or follow Crucial's advice.
It all looks good to my untrained eye, but the attribute that *may* be a bit concerning is #170 (Reserved Block Count), described as "On an SSD, this attribute describes the state of the reserve block pool. The value of the attribute shows the percentage of the pool remaining. The Raw value sometimes contains the actual number of used reserve blocks."
So, that would indicate that you have 68% of your reserve blocks left and 298 used reserve blocks.
I don't know what the value should be for an SSD of the model and age of the one you have.
If you want, you can run a short and extended test (both non-destructive). The output that you provided above indicates that the former will take you approx. 4 minutes, the latter 32 minutes. You can see the results afterwards by re-issuing sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda and checking the data at the foot of the report.
Oh well I'm glad I read the smartctl report a bit. my sda1 disk is my Galax 120GB disk which means its the one that has windows on. I assumed the failing disk was the other ssd on which I have linux because I could boot on windows but not linux. That's kinda odd.
That SSD is pretty rarely used too and is only 9 month old so I find it weird that it would wear off that soon :/
I ran those 2 other tests and here is the result afterwards:
Code:
smartctl 6.5 2016-01-24 r4214 [x86_64-linux-4.4.0-78-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: GALAX TA1D0120A
Serial Number: A45A0768097400023708
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000000 000000000
Firmware Version: SBFM10.5
User Capacity: 120 034 123 776 bytes [120 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: Unknown(0x0ff8) (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 3.2, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Sat Jul 8 03:17:26 2017 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (65535) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x79) SMART execute Offline immediate.
No Auto Offline data collection support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 4) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 32) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 8) minutes.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2737
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 556
168 Unknown_Attribute 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
170 Unknown_Attribute 0x0003 068 068 010 Pre-fail Always - 298
173 Unknown_Attribute 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 196622
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 10
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0023 067 067 000 Pre-fail Always - 33 (Min/Max 33/33)
218 Unknown_Attribute 0x000b 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
231 Temperature_Celsius 0x0013 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 99
241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 346
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 2737 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 2736 -
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 0
Note: revision number not 1 implies that no selective self-test has ever been run
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
Just in case, here is my linux SSD (Samsung 750 evo, 9 month old):
Code:
smartctl 6.5 2016-01-24 r4214 [x86_64-linux-4.4.0-78-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: Samsung SSD 750 EVO 250GB
Serial Number: S33SNB0H903683K
LU WWN Device Id: 5 002538 d413aaa23
Firmware Version: MAT01B6Q
User Capacity: 250 059 350 016 bytes [250 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: ACS-2, ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4c
SATA Version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Sat Jul 8 03:31:07 2017 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 0) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x53) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
No Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 133) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 1
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 2744
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 557
177 Wear_Leveling_Count 0x0013 098 098 000 Pre-fail Always - 7
179 Used_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot 0x0013 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
181 Program_Fail_Cnt_Total 0x0032 100 100 010 Old_age Always - 0
182 Erase_Fail_Count_Total 0x0032 100 100 010 Old_age Always - 0
183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0013 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0032 073 057 000 Old_age Always - 27
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
235 Unknown_Attribute 0x0012 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 8
241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 3706956985
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
255 0 65535 Read_scanning was never started
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
When I gave the command to show the SMART data and run the tests on /dev/sda, I assumed that was the SSD on which you had been experiencing problems and, if not, that you would change the drive designation accordingly.
Right, as regards /dev/sda, which we call the "Windows SSD", that figure of 68% may or may not be a problem, and I am going to recommend that you contact Galax customer support to ask them.
As regards the "Linux SSD", please paste the SMART data here after having run the tests. From your opening post, I now see that it appears to be /dev/sdc.
Ok I'm going to clarify the situation then. I have 3 drives:
sda is my windows SSD and is also the boot drive (with grub on it)
sdb is my linux SSD, with a swap partition on it as well
sdc is a regular HDD used for storage
The recovery mod was telling me that sda had a problem and (I forgot which drive was which) I assumed sda was the linux SSD because I could still boot on windows but not linux.
Then I ran "e2fsck -c /dev/sda1" and it fixed the boot problem. Although now the boot time is getting very long compared to before (the PC stays a few tens of seconds on the asrock screen) and windows is getting really slow and get stuck whenever I try to open the file explorer. Linux is fine though.
Here is the smart report for the linux SSD:
Code:
smartctl 6.5 2016-01-24 r4214 [x86_64-linux-4.4.0-78-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: Samsung SSD 750 EVO 250GB
Serial Number: S33SNB0H903683K
LU WWN Device Id: 5 002538 d413aaa23
Firmware Version: MAT01B6Q
User Capacity: 250 059 350 016 bytes [250 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: ACS-2, ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4c
SATA Version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Sat Jul 8 14:45:53 2017 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 0) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x53) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
No Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 133) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 1
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 2747
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 558
177 Wear_Leveling_Count 0x0013 098 098 000 Pre-fail Always - 7
179 Used_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot 0x0013 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
181 Program_Fail_Cnt_Total 0x0032 100 100 010 Old_age Always - 0
182 Erase_Fail_Count_Total 0x0032 100 100 010 Old_age Always - 0
183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0013 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0032 072 057 000 Old_age Always - 28
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
235 Unknown_Attribute 0x0012 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 8
241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 3710886731
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 2746 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 2744 -
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
255 0 65535 Read_scanning was never started
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
Any idea why the boot time is getting very long? Should I try to move grub on the other SSD? Could it help if I reinstall everything?
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