[Discuss] ATA Access Errors For Spinning Disk

[jbk]

On 12/17/23 21:05, Steve Litt wrote:
> jbk said on Sun, 17 Dec 2023 10:13:36 -0500
>
>> I periodically get access errors for a specific spinning
>> disk that I have done these things to diagnose:
>> Changed Sata Cable
>> Switched Sata bus on MB
>> Run E2fsck on the 3 formatted ext4 partitions w/ no errors found
>> Run smartctl -a: all results within norms
>> Run smartctl -t short: No errors found
>>
>> Disk operation age is about 7.5 years with around a couple
>> hundred starts. It has been in continuous operation for over
>> 8 years except during vacations. On occasion the disk
>> partitions will become unmounted and a mount -a will remount
>> the partitions as a different device from lets say sda to
>> sdd. I've not lost any data and I do regular backups to
>> another device that's rotated out of system.
>>
>> I seem to have always had these errors present on this MB
>> that is maybe 4 or 5 years in operation. Any thoughts on the
>> cause of this issue? Do others see this behavior on occasion
>> on systems they manage?
>>
>> On this same system my Rocky OS on an SSD is showing no
>> issues at all. Same operation age as the spinner.
>
I think a I may have fixed it. The power connector appears 
to have been the issue. I selected a different connector and 
on reboot I did not see any disk errors in the log nor on 
any of the following three reboots.


-- 
Jim KR