My SD card died a few months ago and I didn't have a spare so i just installed & booted from a USB drive.
However since then I've noticed that the Raspberry Pi freezes every 24-48 hours requiring a hard reset.
I set up the watchdog service to fix in the meantime but I'd really like to get this solved correctly.
I noticed in the logs what appear to be read errors (but I can't be certain this is truly related):
[2022-10-07T01:46:54,575] <db-server> INFO db - 2022-10-07T01:46:54.575+0000 E STORAGE [initandlisten] WiredTiger error (-31802) [1665107214:575223][46269:0xffffb0908960], file:WiredTiger.wt, WT_CURSOR.insert: __wt_block_read_off, 302: WiredTiger.wt: fatal read error: WT_ERROR: non-specific WiredTiger error Raw: [1665107214:575223][46269:0xffffb0908960], file:WiredTiger.wt, WT_CURSOR.insert: __wt_block_read_off, 302: WiredTiger.wt: fatal read error: WT_ERROR: non-specific WiredTiger error
Useful info:
ubuntu@raspberrypi:~$ uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 5.15.0-1017-raspi #19-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 14 08:22:47 UTC 2022 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
ubuntu@raspberrypi:~$ apt policy rpi-eeprom
rpi-eeprom:
Installed: 13.12-1ubuntu1
Candidate: 13.12-1ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 13.12-1ubuntu1 500
500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports jammy/main arm64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ubuntu@raspberrypi:~$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1058:2620 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Elements 2620
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bc2:ab24 Seagate RSS LLC Backup Plus Portable Drive
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 2109:3431 VIA Labs, Inc. Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
ubuntu@raspberrypi:~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 0 59M 1 loop /snap/core20/1627
loop1 7:1 0 59M 1 loop /snap/core20/1699
loop2 7:2 0 71.8M 1 loop /snap/lxd/22927
loop3 7:3 0 102M 1 loop /snap/lxd/23545
loop4 7:4 0 41.5M 1 loop /snap/snapd/17339
loop5 7:5 0 43M 1 loop /snap/snapd/17579
sda 8:0 0 223.6G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 256M 0 part /boot/firmware
└─sda2 8:2 0 223.3G 0 part /
sdb 8:16 0 4.5T 0 disk /mnt/drive1
ubuntu@raspberrypi:~$ sudo smartctl -i /dev/sda
smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [aarch64-linux-5.15.0-1017-raspi] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
Read Device Identity failed: scsi error unsupported field in scsi command
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.
ubuntu@raspberrypi:~$ sudo smartctl -i /dev/sdb
smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [aarch64-linux-5.15.0-1017-raspi] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Elements / My Passport (USB, AF)
Device Model: WDC WD50NDZW-11A8JS1
Serial Number: WD-WXQ2E607ZV13
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 2bdf477e7
Firmware Version: 01.01A01
User Capacity: 5,000,947,523,584 bytes [5.00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
TRIM Command: Available, deterministic
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 5
SATA Version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Fri Nov 18 18:54:03 2022 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
I have 2x external disks connected, one is the WDC WD50NDZW-11A8JS1 mentioned above, the other is a Sandisk SDSSDA-240G inside the Seagate RSS LLC Backup Plus Portable Drive case (original drive died and was shucked). the WDC drive is connected with additional power using this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ZUE6PVE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Recently I ran sudo apt-get install rpi-eeprom && sudo rpi-eeprom-update -a in order to fix this and now I'm in a worse position than i was before.
- the drive won't boot from the usb3 ports anymore at all
- the wdc drive randomly doesn't show up on reboot
- afaics no drives can be connected to the usb3 ports at all
In the end i can get a new SD card but I'm on a mission to not buy any more storage since i already have way too many USB drives & external HDDs.
Plus this seems like something that could be fixed.
Any input appreciated.
