This morning my computer started acting funky presenting me with I/O errors on my root hard drive after a few minutes. Turns out the Crucial’s M4 SSD drives have a firmware glitch in some versions where after a little over 5100 hours of operation the stop working reliably. So I upgraded my firmware from 0009 to 000F and that fixed the problem. After running a SMART test on the drive after the upgrade it noted that I had hit the magic number a few hours prior.
Crucial M4 64GB SSD hard drive unstable
April 30th, 2012Weird USB error messages on Arch Linux
April 29th, 2012I was getting weird USB error messages on Arch Linux such as:
- USB …. error -62
- Along lag at boot at the “Waiting for udev events to process”
- USB 1-2 not accepting address 2.
I have a Gigabyte 990x AUD3 motherboard and a Western Digital external hard drive. I was running kernel version 3.3.3-1 x86_64, and after endless troubleshooting I just downgrade my kernel to 3.3.2-1 and that fixed all my problems.
USB Drives do not create a /dev/ Node on Arch Linux
April 14th, 2012When plugging in a USB stick or USB hard drive no /dev/sdX node was being created. lsusb and dmesg showed that the device was detected yet still no node. It turns our for me that for some reason the modules usb-storage and uas were not being loaded.
modprobe usb-storage modprobe uas |
Running the above commands as root resolved my problems and now the /dev/sdX nodes are being properly created. To make this change permanent add these modules to /etc/rc.conf.