External HDD keeps disconnecting

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rudolph05
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Joined: Sat Feb 01, 2020 12:51 pm

External HDD keeps disconnecting

Post by rudolph05 »

Hello all,

I have an 1TB hdd formatted as exFAT, which I use to download movies onto. The version of Transmission is 3.00 (bb6b5a062e). The problem is that Transmission gets to download a few megabytes, then it shows this error message:

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Error: Software caused connection abort (/media/lavinia-hdd/movies/Soul.2020.2160p.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.Atmos.DV.x265-MZABI/Soul.2020.2160p.W

After that if I try to check the mounting point I get the following error message:

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ls: cannot access 'lavinia-hdd': Transport endpoint is not connected

And if I look in dmesg, I get the following:

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[ 4931.817863] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, device number 4
[ 4931.833594] print_req_error: 2323 callbacks suppressed
[ 4931.833599] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 200601088 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x104000 phys_seg 256 prio class 0
[ 4931.833723] buffer_io_error: 223799 callbacks suppressed
[ 4931.833725] Buffer I/O error on dev sdb1, logical block 25074880, lost async page write
[ 4931.833809] Buffer I/O error on dev sdb1, logical block 25074881, lost async page write
[ 4931.833881] Buffer I/O error on dev sdb1, logical block 25074882, lost async page write
[ 4931.833952] Buffer I/O error on dev sdb1, logical block 25074883, lost async page write
[ 4931.834023] Buffer I/O error on dev sdb1, logical block 25074884, lost async page write
[ 4931.834094] Buffer I/O error on dev sdb1, logical block 25074885, lost async page write
[ 4931.834166] Buffer I/O error on dev sdb1, logical block 25074886, lost async page write
[ 4931.834236] Buffer I/O error on dev sdb1, logical block 25074887, lost async page write
[ 4931.834307] Buffer I/O error on dev sdb1, logical block 25074888, lost async page write
[ 4931.836399] Buffer I/O error on dev sdb1, logical block 25074889, lost async page write
[ 4931.838896] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 200603136 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x104000 phys_seg 256 prio class 0
[ 4931.841318] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 200605184 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x100000 phys_seg 1 prio class 0
[ 4931.843648] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 200605192 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x0 phys_seg 75 prio class 0
[ 4931.845711] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 200605792 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x104000 phys_seg 256 prio class 0
[ 4931.848008] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 200607840 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x104000 phys_seg 256 prio class 0
[ 4931.850279] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 200609888 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x104000 phys_seg 256 prio class 0
[ 4931.852436] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 200611936 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x104000 phys_seg 256 prio class 0
[ 4931.854569] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 200613984 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x104000 phys_seg 256 prio class 0
[ 4931.857201] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 200616040 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x4000 phys_seg 256 prio class 0
[ 4933.841604] usb 2-1: new SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
[ 4933.862691] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1058, idProduct=0740, bcdDevice=10.03
[ 4933.862695] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=5
[ 4933.862698] usb 2-1: Product: My Passport 0740
[ 4933.862700] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Western Digital
[ 4933.862701] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 575847314138313435313233
[ 4933.864472] usb-storage 2-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 4933.869680] scsi host3: usb-storage 2-1:1.0
[ 4934.879464] scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access     WD       My Passport 0740 1003 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[ 4934.880678] scsi 3:0:0:1: Enclosure         WD       SES Device       1003 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[ 4934.884758] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[ 4934.884828] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] 1953458176 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
[ 4934.885194] ses 3:0:0:1: Attached Enclosure device
[ 4934.885353] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[ 4934.885370] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 47 00 10 08
[ 4934.885810] ses 3:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 13
[ 4934.886399] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page found
[ 4934.895275] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 4934.897622] ses 3:0:0:1: Wrong diagnostic page; asked for 1 got 8
[ 4934.900872] ses 3:0:0:1: Failed to get diagnostic page 0x1
[ 4934.904010] ses 3:0:0:1: Failed to bind enclosure -19
[ 4934.960129]  sdc: sdc1
[ 4934.962289] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk

I don't know if it's relevant, but this is the transmission-daemon's settings file:

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{
    "alt-speed-down": 50,
    "alt-speed-enabled": false,
    "alt-speed-time-begin": 540,
    "alt-speed-time-day": 127,
    "alt-speed-time-enabled": false,
    "alt-speed-time-end": 1020,
    "alt-speed-up": 50,
    "bind-address-ipv4": "0.0.0.0",
    "bind-address-ipv6": "::",
    "blocklist-enabled": false,
    "blocklist-url": "http://www.example.com/blocklist",
    "cache-size-mb": 4,
    "dht-enabled": true,
    "download-dir": "/media/lavinia-hdd/movies",
    "download-limit": 100,
    "download-limit-enabled": 0,
    "download-queue-enabled": true,
    "download-queue-size": 5,
    "encryption": 1,
    "idle-seeding-limit": 30,
    "idle-seeding-limit-enabled": false,
    "incomplete-dir": "/media/lavinia-hdd/.incomplete",
    "incomplete-dir-enabled": true,
    "lpd-enabled": false,
    "max-peers-global": 200,
    "message-level": 1,
    "peer-congestion-algorithm": "",
    "peer-id-ttl-hours": 6,
    "peer-limit-global": 200,
    "peer-limit-per-torrent": 50,
    "peer-port": 51413,
    "peer-port-random-high": 65535,
    "peer-port-random-low": 49152,
    "peer-port-random-on-start": false,
    "peer-socket-tos": "default",
    "pex-enabled": true,
    "port-forwarding-enabled": false,
    "preallocation": 1,
    "prefetch-enabled": true,
    "queue-stalled-enabled": true,
    "queue-stalled-minutes": 30,
    "ratio-limit": 2,
    "ratio-limit-enabled": false,
    "rename-partial-files": true,
    "rpc-authentication-required": true,
    "rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0",
    "rpc-enabled": true,
    "rpc-host-whitelist": "",
    "rpc-host-whitelist-enabled": true,
    "rpc-password": "{0a05cdf0e12734efe2ae6e4e6ef4f6ece06389d0xHfu3h0E",
    "rpc-port": 9091,
    "rpc-url": "/transmission/",
    "rpc-username": "lavinia",
    "rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1",
    "rpc-whitelist-enabled": false,
    "scrape-paused-torrents-enabled": true,
    "script-torrent-done-enabled": false,
    "script-torrent-done-filename": "",
    "seed-queue-enabled": false,
    "seed-queue-size": 10,
    "speed-limit-down": 100,
    "speed-limit-down-enabled": false,
    "speed-limit-up": 100,
    "speed-limit-up-enabled": false,
    "start-added-torrents": true,
    "trash-original-torrent-files": false,
    "umask": 18,
    "upload-limit": 100,
    "upload-limit-enabled": 0,
    "upload-slots-per-torrent": 14,
    "utp-enabled": true
}
killemov
Posts: 533
Joined: Sat Jul 31, 2010 5:04 pm

Re: External HDD keeps disconnecting

Post by killemov »

My first guess would be a driver and/or a filesystem corruption problem. I have seen drives disconnect on a hardware sector error as well but not for a long time.
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