Failing USB, I believe. How can I confirm the issue?

[live4soccer7]

I believe my USB, which I got based on test for the most reliable USB, is failing. I had to upgrade it maybe a year ago due to the one I had in there for 10yrs only being 1GB and it not having enough room to update the OS anymore.

 

Today the server crashed, highly irregular, and upon reboot it said "This can not be fixed automatically", then i saw references to sda1, which the USB is sda. Then saw something regarding bits and disabling something. I did have to attempt boot a couple times. The second time the USB boot option did not show up at all on the boot menu. It finally booted, complaining of bad bits (or something along those lines). Once it booted I got a fresh backup of the USB.

 

It has been a couple hours, but I don't know what else it could be. I highly doubt it is actually the USB port.

 

I'll probably head to walmart (closest place to get a usb stick).

 

This is probably my best/quickest option right now:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/SanDisk-64GB-Cruzer-Glide-USB-2-0-Flash-Drive-2-Pack-SDCZ60-064G-AW46TW/331396621

[JorgeB]

You can try recreating the flash drive, if it doesn't help replace it.

[live4soccer7]

Wouldn't the mere fact it didn't show up in the boot menu at all when other devices do that don't have anything bootable suggest that the drive wasn't even functioning at all at that time?

[JorgeB]

Yes, most likely it's a bad flash drive, though it won't hurt to try and recreate it first to confirm.

[Veah]

Try a different USB plug/header maybe?  Can't hurt.

[live4soccer7]

I thought about this as well, but not sure there are any others internally on the server. I'll take a look.

 

Are there any plans at all to be able to use something other than a USB drive? They are purely made like s*** these days. My last USB was still good after running unraid for 10yrs, but just become too small, 1GB, to upgrade.

Edited May 9 by live4soccer7

[live4soccer7]

I  just want to confirm, if that's ok. If I go ahead and create a new USB drive with a fresh image to make sure there aren't any bad bits (at least best chance). I would just copy over the config folder from my backup to the newly created flash drive, correct? 

 

I think this method may be better than creating the new usb drive fully from the backup.zip file.

[JorgeB]

1 hour ago, live4soccer7 said:

I would just copy over the config folder from my backup to the newly created flash drive, correct?

Correct

[live4soccer7]

Anyone tried one of these? It's USB 😂 I've been trying to find if it has a single GUID for the USB drive itself. 

 

edit: from what I can see from further research, this can not be used outside of ESXi

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/235089699698?epid=13034394641&itmmeta=01HXPRXH7Z76JV7PQ2AAV8BD9T&hash=item36bc702372:g:WgkAAOSw5Elj7Tqy&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAABEFSK1UgDTSmq%2F5aDQtQo68VrRDKaIDQv5RQzURJoI%2FSW8iV56SJUaG7LwwwlQUJnoVd7HOKMBFC220PXKf%2FOasZ9wZw6JudmyWQfB8j3ZOC0FTMmdgBE%2FOc%2FtNf8CRtyRlt65Pw7%2BBSwpJZuaf8BsFifwr1%2FK3Oz6CbDFpmO%2F4loxix1tA1xy%2Fie3ONIDOd2wjdSv0FQ832lBA%2FVgjQ%2FadHdJwaEoi%2FCG79lYLc8JpjWYwjuLCKEuZGvweefCHHOHjL0FlkxveVY6iHqoCYLdiZJXDJfW6wPZ2M5D6kUaMsErXYBMCSAgJzReu%2B0McyS66xNYJR%2F5kheeSg4FBfcorc0m%2BYn5COVsgZt1wfu%2BGyX|tkp%3ABFBMnpT22O1j

Edited May 12 by live4soccer7

[live4soccer7]

I ended up picking up an hpe enterprise and swissbit. I'll run a test on them to check things out. Swissbit will be the primary since the one I got is SLC as opposed to pSLC of the hpe enterprise. Regardless, this will end the usb issues for me and I can sleep at night. There are quite a few essential things running on the server.

[live4soccer7]

Well..... I highly doubt it is the USB unless a file in the config folder is corrupt. I did a fresh install on a new usb drive that was confirmed genuine by the manufacturer and the error on boot is the same. I then tried booting from a different USB slot with the original usb drive and the error persists. This is either something in the config folder that's messed up somehow. I am sorting through the video of the boot to see if I can find what's right above this. It paused here for a few seconds and I had time to snap a quick photo. Any ideas at all?

 

The first photo is the very last frame before the "errors" in the second photo fly by.

 

 

 

 

Edited Thursday at 03:55 AM by live4soccer7

[live4soccer7]

Here are some more shots.

 

 

[live4soccer7]

This doesn't really have to do with why the system went down, but perhaps a side effect of it going down uncleanly. 

 

lsscsi to get list of devices

Confirm your device and run the following in your unraid terminal

fsck -y /dev/sda1

 

I got this from reddit:

 

[live4soccer7]

Here is my result

 

 

[JorgeB]

Try booting with a different flash drive using a stock install, no key needed, that will help point to what the issue is.

[live4soccer7]

I did a fresh install on a new usb and simply copied over the config from the zip. The result was still the above.

Edited Thursday at 02:01 PM by live4soccer7

[JorgeB]

34 minutes ago, live4soccer7 said:

and simply copied over the config from the zip.

Don't do that, the problem may also be /config related, retry with a stock install, and if it's still the same, the server is likely the problem.