hardware upgrade issue? boot on flash disappearing

[kriddles]

Hi

 

I've been enjoying using stock unraid pro for a few years now but would like to jump in with some of the add-ons that this community has worked hard on.

I'd appreciate any help as I work through troubleshooting some issues.

 

Right now- I am trying to install the sabnzbd package but whenever I try to installpkg it goes through the process and then everything in /boot disappears.  The same thing occurs if I just boot up unraid and copy my syslog to the /boot folder.

I pull the flash drive and run a chkdisk on it in windows and it fixes corruptions, then safely remove it and restart unraid but the issue occurs again.  This leads me to think the flash is getting set it to read-only but I do not see that occurring in the syslog which I have attached.

 

I recently upgraded my unraid to include a cache drive which I had to also install a new sata 2port pci card.

I bought the 2port card from monoprice- but I have not updated the firmware for it.  I just need one port on it and it appeared to be working when I successfully set up the cache drive.

parity checks run successful but since the /boot is disappearing so anytime I restart the server it runs through another parity check.

Unraid version 4.5.4

 

I'm not sure if my flash drive is possibly failing?

or if this is from the hardware upgrade.

Any suggestions on next steps?

 

I'll probably remove the cache drive and sata card this evening and restart unraid to see if I see the same issues.

And run through a memtest

 

After I telnet in I believe these are the errors occurring:

 

Dec  1 12:53:24 Tower kernel: usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
Dec  1 12:53:24 Tower kernel: usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Dec  1 12:53:24 Tower kernel: usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Dec  1 12:53:25 Tower kernel: usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
Dec  1 12:53:25 Tower kernel: usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Dec  1 12:53:25 Tower kernel: usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Dec  1 12:53:25 Tower kernel: usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: usb 1-5: device not accepting address 2, error -71
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: usb 1-5: device not accepting address 2, error -71
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: usb 1-5: USB disconnect, address 2
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x01 driverbyte=0x00
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 00 00 d2 b3 00 00 70 00
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 53939
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x01 driverbyte=0x00
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 00 00 08 24 00 00 01 00
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 2084
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 1985
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: FAT: Directory bread(block 2296) faile

 

 

My hardware specs.

 

256 mb sandisk cruzer usbdrive

mobo ECS A740GM-M

Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2GB

AMD Athlon X2 4050e Brisbane 2.1GHz

Antec 380w earthwatts

SATA2 Serial ATA II PCI-Express RAID Controller Card (Silicon Image SIL3132)

5 sata drives

1 cache drive

a few fans and fan controller in a centurion 590 case

syslog_120110_105.txt

[Joe L.]

Basically the USB port reset and everything went down hill from there.  Perhaps a device or interrupt conflict in the BIOS config. 

Dec  1 12:53:24 Tower kernel: usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
Dec  1 12:53:24 Tower kernel: usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Dec  1 12:53:24 Tower kernel: usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Dec  1 12:53:25 Tower kernel: usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
Dec  1 12:53:25 Tower kernel: usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Dec  1 12:53:25 Tower kernel: usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Dec  1 12:53:25 Tower kernel: usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: usb 1-5: device not accepting address 2, error -71
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: usb 1-5: device not accepting address 2, error -71
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: usb 1-5: USB disconnect, address 2
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x01 driverbyte=0x00
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 00 00 d2 b3 00 00 70 00
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 53939
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x01 driverbyte=0x00
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 00 00 08 24 00 00 01 00
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 2084
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 1985
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: FAT: Directory bread(block 2296) failed
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: FAT: Directory bread(block 2297) failed
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: FAT: Directory bread(block 2298) failed
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: FAT: Directory bread(block 2299) failed
Dec  1 12:53:26 Tower kernel: FAT: Directory bread(block 2304) failed

[kriddles]

Thanks for looking Joe

 

Ill check out the bios and go ahead with pulling the sata controller and cache drive then restart to see if the same errors occur.

 

One other thing- I did switch the flash drive to 2 different usb ports thinking maybe the initial mobo usb port was bad.

 

Any other suggestions on what to do to troubleshoot the possible conflict?

 

[bcbgboy13]

Since it happened recently when you installed the new card you may try:

 

1. Check for and update the motherboard BIOS (but you have ECS mobo so threat it carefully)'

 

2. Restore the BIOS to the default, change the SATA HDs to AHCI mode and disable anything you do not use (serial ports, parallel ports, audio, firewire, floppy cntrl, even the IDE controllers as you do not have any IDE drive) - this will free some resources.

[kriddles]

Just an update-

 

I pulled my pci sata card and the cache drive.

Still had the issue.

 

I updated my mobo bios and checked all of the settings.

Still had the issue.

 

After more extensive searching I found an issue with some linux kernals and ehci_hcd for usb 2.0.

The same error "device descriptor read/64, error -71" is occurring.

It is possible that I just have not noticed this issue since updating to 4.5.4 a few months ago which did include a kernal update.

I went ahead and updated to the new unraid 4.5.6 rc5 release but still had the issue

 

Next steps

I am going to attempt to use the plop boot manager as is described here

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=4379.msg39250#msg39250

 

This would allow me to bypass using ehci_hcd on boot and disable the mobo bios usb legacy support

[kriddles]

Another update-

 

After setting up the plop bootloader the issue is still occurring.

 

Ive got some time this weekend to double check my work and continue to troubleshoot the issue.

 

Im going to probably attempt to use the last unraid version i remember that worked.

Or/and get a new usb drive set up.