2.6.38: XFS/USB/HW issue, or failing USB stick?

From: Justin Piszcz
Date: Fri Mar 18 2011 - 11:08:51 EST


Hi,

I can write to just about the entire USB stick, with no errors:

atom:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 5.8G 1.5G 4.3G 26% /
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10M 140K 9.9M 2% /dev
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm
atom:~# cd /
atom:/# ls
bin cdrom etc lib media nfs proc sbin srv tmp var
boot dev home lib64 mnt opt root selinux sys usr
atom:/# dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1M count=4000
4000+0 records in
4000+0 records out
4194304000 bytes (4.2 GB) copied, 135.536 s, 30.9 MB/s
atom:/# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 5.8G 5.4G 350M 95% /
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10M 140K 9.9M 2% /dev
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm
atom:/# rm bigfile

However, after some amount of time, the errors occur below, is this USB
stick failing? Since it has no SMART, is there any other way to verify
the 'health' of a USB stick?

Mar 18 07:55:12 atom [ 10.034310] e1000e 0000:03:00.0: eth1: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO

[ .. no errors .. ]

Mar 18 08:32:44 atom [ 2261.883848] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2
Mar 18 08:32:44 atom [ 2261.884465] Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1317256
Mar 18 08:32:44 atom [ 2261.884525] lost page write due to I/O error on sda2
Mar 18 08:32:44 atom [ 2261.884713] Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1307821
Mar 18 08:32:44 atom [ 2261.884764] lost page write due to I/O error on sda2
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom [ 2283.744165] sd 6:0:0:0: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom [ 2283.744264] sd 6:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled error code
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom [ 2283.744298] sd 6:0:0:0: [sda]
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom [ 2283.744356] sd 6:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom Write(10)
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom :
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom 2a
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom 00
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom 00
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom 99
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom 0f
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom 7e
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom 00
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom 00
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom 02
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom 00
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom [ 2283.744450] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 10030974
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom [ 2283.744544] I/O error in filesystem ("sda2") meta-data dev sda2 block 0x5c05c5 ("xlog_iodone") error 5 buf count 1024
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom [ 2283.744591] xfs_force_shutdown(sda2,0x2) called from line 893 of file fs/xfs/xfs_log.c. Return address = 0xffffffff811c9834
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom [ 2283.744669] Filesystem sda2: Log I/O Error Detected. Shutting down filesystem: sda2
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom [ 2283.744732] Please umount the filesystem, and rectify the problem(s)
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom [ 2283.744779] Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1318284
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom [ 2283.744831] lost page write due to I/O error on sda2
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom [ 2283.745659] Filesystem sda2: xfs_log_force: error 5 returned.
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom [ 2283.746109] Filesystem sda2: xfs_log_force: error 5 returned.
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom [ 2283.746168] xfs_force_shutdown(sda2,0x1) called from line 1111 of file fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c. Return address = 0xffffffff811e1e1c
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom [ 2283.963059] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom [ 2284.080647] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0325, idProduct=ac02
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom [ 2284.080707] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom [ 2284.080752] usb 1-1: Product: R2_TURBO
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom [ 2284.080794] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: OCZ Technology
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom [ 2284.080831] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: (removed)
Mar 18 08:33:06 atom [ 2284.082082] scsi7 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0
Mar 18 08:33:07 atom [ 2285.083417] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access OCZ R2_TURBO 1100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
Mar 18 08:33:07 atom [ 2285.085539] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] 16056320 512-byte logical blocks: (8.22 GB/7.65 GiB)
Mar 18 08:33:07 atom [ 2285.086520] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Mar 18 08:33:07 atom [ 2285.089383] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
Mar 18 08:33:07 atom [ 2285.089435] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Mar 18 08:33:07 atom [ 2285.094025] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
Mar 18 08:33:07 atom [ 2285.094071] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Mar 18 08:33:07 atom [ 2285.094888] sdb: sdb1 sdb2
Mar 18 08:33:07 atom [ 2285.097544] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
Mar 18 08:33:07 atom [ 2285.097602] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Mar 18 08:33:07 atom [ 2285.097647] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
Mar 18 08:33:36 atom [ 2313.744037] Filesystem sda2: xfs_log_force: error 5 returned.
Mar 18 08:34:06 atom
Mar 18 08:34:06 atom [ 2343.745039] Filesystem sda2: xfs_log_force: error 5 returned.
Mar 18 08:34:36 atom
Mar 18 08:34:36 atom [ 2373.745039] Filesystem sda2: xfs_log_force: error 5 returned.
Mar 18 08:35:06 atom


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