USB3 Problems?

[hteles]

Hello dear fellows.

I've been having some problems lately with two external usb 3.0 drives.

I don't have any other usb3 ready computer to debug a usb3 port problem but when i attach those drives to normal usb 2 ports i don't have any errors.


Linux Zen-Touch 3.13.0-14-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Thu Feb 27 22:32:54 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

kern.log

Mar  3 14:41:41 Zen-Touch kernel: [20896.470214] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
Mar  3 14:41:41 Zen-Touch kernel: [20896.470219] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb]  
Mar  3 14:41:41 Zen-Touch kernel: [20896.470222] Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
Mar  3 14:41:41 Zen-Touch kernel: [20896.470225] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: 
Mar  3 14:41:41 Zen-Touch kernel: [20896.470228] Read(10): 28 00 00 00 54 65 00 00 4b 00
Mar  3 14:41:41 Zen-Touch kernel: [20896.470241] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 21605
Mar  3 14:41:41 Zen-Touch kernel: [20896.629521] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
Mar  3 14:41:41 Zen-Touch kernel: [20896.646536] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep ffff88008f50a880
Mar  3 14:41:41 Zen-Touch kernel: [20896.646544] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep ffff88008f50a8c0
Mar  3 14:41:41 Zen-Touch kernel: [20896.646943] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
Mar  3 14:41:41 Zen-Touch kernel: [20896.646948] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb]  
Mar  3 14:41:41 Zen-Touch kernel: [20896.646950] Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
Mar  3 14:41:41 Zen-Touch kernel: [20896.646954] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: 
Mar  3 14:41:41 Zen-Touch kernel: [20896.646956] Read(10): 28 00 00 00 55 9b 00 00 66 00
Mar  3 14:41:41 Zen-Touch kernel: [20896.646970] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 21915
Mar  3 14:41:42 Zen-Touch kernel: [20896.785461] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
Mar  3 14:41:42 Zen-Touch kernel: [20896.801698] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep ffff88008f50a880
Mar  3 14:41:42 Zen-Touch kernel: [20896.801706] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep ffff88008f50a8c0
Mar  3 14:41:42 Zen-Touch kernel: [20896.802102] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
Mar  3 14:41:42 Zen-Touch kernel: [20896.802107] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb]  
Mar  3 14:41:42 Zen-Touch kernel: [20896.802110] Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
Mar  3 14:41:42 Zen-Touch kernel: [20896.802113] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: 
Mar  3 14:41:42 Zen-Touch kernel: [20896.802115] Read(10): 28 00 00 00 56 01 00 00 1f 00
Mar  3 14:41:42 Zen-Touch kernel: [20896.802128] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 22017
Mar  3 14:42:15 Zen-Touch kernel: [20930.303315]  [<ffffffff811b95a6>] deactivate_super+0x46/0x60
Mar  3 14:42:15 Zen-Touch kernel: [20930.303321]  [<ffffffff811d6256>] mntput_no_expire+0xd6/0x170
Mar  3 14:42:15 Zen-Touch kernel: [20930.303326]  [<ffffffff811d773e>] SyS_umount+0x8e/0x100
Mar  3 14:42:15 Zen-Touch kernel: [20930.303331]  [<ffffffff8171f1ff>] tracesys+0xe1/0xe6
Mar  3 14:42:15 Zen-Touch kernel: [20930.303335] ---[ end trace 3d583de69a756dc4 ]--- 


root@Zen-Touch:/lib/modules/3.13.0-14-generic# cat /boot/config-3.13.0-14-generic |grep -i xhci
CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_XHCI_PLATFORM=m

I've already checked one of the hardrives for badblocks and problems only appear when connected to the usb3 port.

Regards.

[Teunis]

Good point to check the USB(3) ports.

So far here USB3 shows up as such and without problems.

(Thinkpad W520, 1.5TB CnMemory HDD and a 64GB Verbatim SSD)

[GreyGeek]

mmmm... my USB 3.0 port isn't giving me any problems. For a period of time I connected a USB 3.0 350Gb external HD and used btrfs to add it to my /home subvolume. (I am using the btrfs not ext4) It worked like a charm and was very fast.

[hteles]

Hi,

Maybe my port has gone bad.
This laptop has already been sent two times to the factory with mobo problems. Bad Bad Asus!

Im using those two disks formated with vfat and they are normally attached to the big LG TV.

I will format one of them with ext4 and see if the problem persists. BTW both are 2.5", GPT enabled and one is 512GB and the other is 1TB

I'll keep this post open for some more days to see if someone has problems

[hteles]

Hi again.

After formating one of the disks to ext[2,4] there are no problems reading it in the usb3 port.

Even if it is a limitation of vfat filesystems it works fine when connected to a usb2 port.

Weird.

regards.

[Teunis]

Ah, did you recently connect this disk to a Vista or newer Windows computer?
Because they regularly find and are able to fix small problems on an MS file system.
Those problems show up in Linux by slowing down access but I haven't found a Linux utility that can scan for and fix these.

[hteles]

Hi Teunis.

Will try to attach it to a Windows 7 KVM Instance. Both were formated in Linux and are large hard drives.
Did not try with exfat ( new ms fat system ) but the problem with that is that writing to exfat is time consuming and my Corei3 spikes a lot.

regards.