Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>]

gene heskett composed on 2024-01-16 20:08 (UTC-0500):

> Felix Miata wrote:

>> I straightened out the wrapping mess, and gave each entry a line number. I see
>> nothing I recognize as representing serial number duplication among /dev/sdX
>> (physical device) names:

>> /dev/sda     9  /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Samsung_SSD_870_QVO_1TB_S5RRNF0T201730V
>> /dev/sdd    19  /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Samsung_SSD_870_EVO_1TB_S626NF0R302507V
>> /dev/sde    28  /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Samsung_SSD_870_EVO_1TB_S626NF0R302502E
>> /dev/sdf    36  /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Samsung_SSD_870_EVO_1TB_S626NF0R302498T
>> /dev/sdg    43  /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Samsung_SSD_870_EVO_1TB_S626NF0R302509W
>> /dev/sdh    51  /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Gigastone_SSD_GSTD02TB230102
>> /dev/sdi    53  /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Gigastone_SSD_GST02TBG221146
>> /dev/sdk    55  /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Gigastone_SSD_GSTG02TB230206

>> Exactly which line numbers represent duplication among the physical drives?

> lsblk, which I've published several times, shows 5 drives. by-id listing 
> only shows 3. The drive I've been trying to use bounces from /dev/sdd to 
> sde to sdh dependin on which controller it is curently plugged into.

>From your 2024-01-15 17:56 -0500 post, I see 8 unique serial numbers from SATA
SSDs, 5 Samsung, 3 Gigastone.

I ignore all your posts with lsblk that didn't use the -f option to facilitate
identifying individual SSDs.

> And I've since tried cp in addition to rsync, does the same thing, 
> killing the sysytem with the OOM but much quicker. cp using all system 
> memory (32Gb) in 1 minute, another 500K into swap adds another 15 secs, 
> and the OOM kills the system. So both cp and rsync act broken.

> rsync, with a --bwlimit=3m set, takes much longer to kill the system but 
> the amount of data moved is very similar, 13.5G from clean disk to 
> system freeze for rsync, 13.4G for cp.-- 
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