V.T. Eric Layton Posted Saturday at 09:20 PM Share Posted Saturday at 09:20 PM NOTE: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. I'm a professional. A little while ago, I noticed a faint clicking noise happening in my tower box next to me here on this desk. UH-OH, I thought. I had just recently done drive testing and all four of my mechanical drives came through the tests with flying colors. Hmm... I fdisk'd to find that my sdb drive (rsnyc backup mirror) was not showing up. That's interesting. I rebooted and booted to Porteus to use the Disk Health utility on there. Cannot find Disk! I rebooted again, but this time, I WHACKED the side of the case rather hard. It booted up normally and sdb is present and accounted for. A test with the disk utility shows no issues with the drive. I guess the drive head arm was just stuck or something. You can't WHACK solid state drives to fix 'em. HA-HA-HA! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted Saturday at 11:04 PM Share Posted Saturday at 11:04 PM Great you fixed it professionally! Percussive maintenance FTW. Apparently putting them in the freezer for a while can help sometimes. Gotta say I never had to whack any SSDs. I've only ever bought 3 and the oldest one, 12 years and counting, still works fine. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted Sunday at 08:58 AM Share Posted Sunday at 08:58 AM 9 hours ago, sunrat said: Great you fixed it professionally! Percussive maintenance FTW. Apparently putting them in the freezer for a while can help sometimes. Gotta say I never had to whack any SSDs. I've only ever bought 3 and the oldest one, 12 years and counting, still works fine. Can not track down when I bought my first ssd. Bought my nvme in 2015 and it is still running just fine and dandy though.Mind you my Samsung F3 hdd's which are older are still running ok too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted Sunday at 02:26 PM Author Share Posted Sunday at 02:26 PM Well, if I ever get the means (read as $$$) to build another system. I will definitely be using SS drives. However, unless some unforeseen universal force blesses me with gold, I don't see this happening any time soon. I'll just continue to utilize the "chewing gum/baling wire" to keep this ol' box going for as long as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted Sunday at 02:59 PM Share Posted Sunday at 02:59 PM 31 minutes ago, V.T. Eric Layton said: I will definitely be using SS drives. So what is stopping you from cloning your old hdd to that ssd you have sat on a shelf collecting dust then mate. It would only take you about an hour to do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted Sunday at 09:14 PM Author Share Posted Sunday at 09:14 PM Lack of knowledge and lazy. I don't know how to utilize SS and mechanical drives in one machine? Do I have to do something to the SCSI interfaces? Will my operating system recognize/understand the SS interface? And so on... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted Monday at 08:53 AM Share Posted Monday at 08:53 AM Weird coincidence? Today I went out for most of the day and turned the computer off as I left, which I rarely do. On return the damn thing wouldn't even POST although the power light came on. Gave it a firm whack on both sides, hit the switch, and away it went. Gotta discipline these infernal gadgets sometimes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted Tuesday at 12:46 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 12:46 PM It's not difficult to run an HDD and SSD in the same box. One thing I do is have a file to set up process schedulers for the disks. Gksudo gedit/etc/udev/rules.d/60-schedulers.rules # set noop scheduler for non-rotating disks ACTION=="add|change", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]", ATTR{queue/rotational}=="0", ATTR{queue/scheduler}="noop" # set cfq scheduler for rotating disks ACTION=="add|change", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]", ATTR{queue/rotational}=="1", ATTR{queue/scheduler}="cfq" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted Tuesday at 03:59 PM Author Share Posted Tuesday at 03:59 PM I do believe that ericsbane07 is dying a slow death (as we all are). Every morning at power up, I have to wiggle the vid card in the socket to get vid display working. My last system (ericsshop02 - previously ericsbane06) developed the same issue before it got demoted to "onboard vid use" and tossed out in the shop. Seems that GIGAByte mobos have a tendency for the cheap-crappy vid sockets to wear out over time; probably due to heat and the weight of these BIG darn vid cards. ericsbane07 has developed "old man" issues; much like Eric himself these days. Well, I have a good supply of whacks, baling wire, and chewing gum. I'll keep it going as long as I can. A further note about the failing drive: when I first boot up in the morning, the POST does not see the /dev/sdb drive. Yet, when I am booted into the OS, I can use parted in the command line to "see" and access the drive with no issues. My Thunar also "sees" the drive once booted in to graphical mode. Weird that POST doesn't sense it. Meh... who knows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted Tuesday at 04:29 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 04:29 PM I have a Gigabyte mobo in my main Linux desktop but it seems to be OK so far. The video card is not too large and heavy though. It's an AMD R7 360. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted Tuesday at 08:40 PM Author Share Posted Tuesday at 08:40 PM The last three GIGAbyte mobos I've had all developed issues with the vid card socket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted yesterday at 03:07 AM Share Posted yesterday at 03:07 AM (edited) Whacking to fix brings back so many memories ... Ever do the 4" drop for a harddrive? Edited yesterday at 03:08 AM by crp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted yesterday at 03:09 AM Share Posted yesterday at 03:09 AM On 9/17/2023 at 2:14 PM, V.T. Eric Layton said: Lack of knowledge and lazy. I don't know how to utilize SS and mechanical drives in one machine? Do I have to do something to the SCSI interfaces? Will my operating system recognize/understand the SS interface? And so on... SCSI ??? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted yesterday at 01:00 PM Author Share Posted yesterday at 01:00 PM 9 hours ago, crp said: SCSI??? Er... slip of the fingers (or old brain). I probably meant SATA. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted yesterday at 02:06 PM Share Posted yesterday at 02:06 PM 1 hour ago, V.T. Eric Layton said: Er... slip of the fingers (or old brain). I probably meant SATA. whew. In that case, SATA is SATA for practical purposes. A SATA3 will work with the original SATA. You should definitely go to SSD for at least the troublesome harddrive. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted 20 hours ago Author Share Posted 20 hours ago Hmm... 'puter getting buggier and buggier. Wouldn't wake from Suspend earlier. Rebooted -> no POST beeps at all, just spinning fans. Wiggled vid card, power supply connections, RAM sticks, etc. No joy. Smacked the side of the case again and POOF! Booted up fine. I definitely have a bad connection somewhere in this box... or worse, a bad solder joint on the mobo or somewhere. Much more of this aggravation and there's a good chance I might shoot it with my .357. It would be noisy, but satisfying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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