- some errors are displayed in the logs (see below)
- the speed is about half compared with the same external HDD operating under Windows. Less than an issue, but this shows that there is room for improvements.
- higher CPU usage (about 15 - 20%) compared to Windows. Most likely is related with the point above.
First snippet:
In this case the disk activity simply "froze" for 30 seconds, then resumes and the cycle repeats.kernel: usb 2-1.1: reset high-speed USB device number 39 using ehci-pci
kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_TIME_OUT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK cmd_age=30s
kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 CDB: Read(16) 88 00 00 00 00 00 74 37 7c f0 00 00 00 10 00 00
kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1949793520 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 1 prio class 0
kernel: usb 2-1.1: reset high-speed USB device number 39 using ehci-pci
kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_TIME_OUT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK cmd_age=30s
kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 CDB: Read(16) 88 00 00 00 00 00 74 38 ca 00 00 00 00 f0 00 00
kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1949878784 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x84700 phys_seg 30 prio class 0
kernel: usb 2-1.1: reset high-speed USB device number 39 using ehci-pci
kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_TIME_OUT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK cmd_age=30s
kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 CDB: Read(16) 88 00 00 00 00 00 74 3d c2 00 00 00 00 f0 00 00
kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1950204416 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x84700 phys_seg 30 prio class 0
kernel: usb 2-1.1: reset high-speed USB device number 39 using ehci-pci
kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_TIME_OUT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK cmd_age=32s
kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 CDB: Read(16) 88 00 00 00 00 00 74 45 39 00 00 00 00 f0 00 00
kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1950693632 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x84700 phys_seg 18 prio class 0
kernel: usb 2-1.1: reset high-speed USB device number 39 using ehci-pci
kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_TIME_OUT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK cmd_age=30s
kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 CDB: Read(16) 88 00 00 00 00 00 74 49 eb 00 00 00 00 f0 00 00
kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1951001344 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x84700 phys_seg 30 prio class 0
Second snippet:
Here there is a movie playing and the play stops or video/sound loose sync.kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 1672718464 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 9 prio class 0
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE cmd_age=0s
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 Sense Key : Not Ready [current]
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 Add. Sense: No additional sense information
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 63 b3 c0 80 00 01 00 00
kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 1672724608 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 2 prio class 0
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE cmd_age=0s
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 Sense Key : Not Ready [current]
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 Add. Sense: No additional sense information
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 63 b4 41 80 00 01 00 00
kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 1672757632 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 3 prio class 0
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE cmd_age=0s
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 Sense Key : Not Ready [current]
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 Add. Sense: No additional sense information
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 63 b4 4f 80 00 01 00 00
kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 1672761216 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 8 prio class 0
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE cmd_age=0s
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 Sense Key : Not Ready [current]
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 Add. Sense: No additional sense information
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 63 b4 b2 80 00 01 00 00
kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 1672786560 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 32 prio class 0
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE cmd_age=0s
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 Sense Key : Not Ready [current]
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 Add. Sense: No additional sense information
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 63 b4 e6 80 00 01 00 00
kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 1672799872 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 28 prio class 0
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE cmd_age=0s
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 Sense Key : Not Ready [current]
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 Add. Sense: No additional sense information
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 63 b5 20 80 00 01 00 00
kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 1672814720 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 9 prio class 0
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE cmd_age=0s
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 Sense Key : Not Ready [current]
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 Add. Sense: No additional sense information
kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 63 b5 75 80 00 01 00 00
kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 1672836480 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 3 prio class 0
Using USB 2 or USB 3 ports doesn't change anything.
The problem is that there is no issue with the hard drive, I did a (surface) check on Windows and everything was ok. Under Windows everything works as expected, no error is displayed in the logs.
None of the drives show symptoms of a dying drive like vibrations, chirping sounds while operating.
If I remember correctly, I read that in kernel 5.12 there is a new NTFS driver.
Any observations, suggestions, tips will be highly appreciated.