Hi all,
I am just setting up a brand new 525-series SSD (SSDMCEAC12) and as soon as I try to write more than a few MB of data to it it stops responding. I can't even use smartctl to get any details out of the drive, and if I reset the PC it locks up at the BIOS logo (motherboard is an Intel DH87MC.)
If I power off the board for a few minutes then everything seems fine until I write more than a few MB to the SSD and then it stops responding again. Am I doing something wrong? I'm just booting Linux off a USB stick and copying files onto the SSD over the network (so that I can then boot off the SSD instead.) The SSD is not warm at all so it's not a temperature issue. Before it locks up smartctl reports a normal temperature (33 degrees.)
Here are some of the kernel messages I get when things break:
Sep 07 16:07:52 archiso kernel: ata6.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0xfffffff SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
Sep 07 16:07:52 archiso kernel: ata6.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
Sep 07 16:07:52 archiso kernel: [135B blob data]
Sep 07 16:07:52 archiso kernel: ata6.00: status: { DRDY }
Sep 07 16:07:52 archiso kernel: ata6.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
Sep 07 16:07:52 archiso kernel: [138B blob data]
Sep 07 16:07:52 archiso kernel: ata6.00: status: { DRDY }
Sep 07 16:07:52 archiso kernel: ata6.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
Sep 07 16:07:52 archiso kernel: [138B blob data]
Sep 07 16:07:52 archiso kernel: ata6.00: status: { DRDY }
Sep 07 16:07:52 archiso kernel: ata6.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
Sep 07 16:07:52 archiso kernel: [138B blob data]
Sep 07 16:07:52 archiso kernel: ata6.00: status: { DRDY }
Sep 07 16:07:52 archiso kernel: ata6.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
Sep 07 16:07:52 archiso kernel: [138B blob data]
Sep 07 16:07:52 archiso kernel: ata6.00: status: { DRDY }
Sep 07 16:07:52 archiso kernel: ata6.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
Sep 07 16:07:52 archiso kernel: [138B blob data]
Sep 07 16:07:52 archiso kernel: ata6.00: status: { DRDY }
...
Sep 07 16:07:52 archiso kernel: ata6: hard resetting link
Sep 07 16:07:58 archiso kernel: ata6: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
Sep 07 16:08:02 archiso kernel: ata6: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
Sep 07 16:08:02 archiso kernel: ata6: hard resetting link
Sep 07 16:08:08 archiso kernel: ata6: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
Sep 07 16:08:12 archiso kernel: ata6: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
Sep 07 16:08:12 archiso kernel: ata6: hard resetting link
Sep 07 16:08:18 archiso kernel: ata6: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
...
Sep 07 16:08:47 archiso kernel: ata6: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
Sep 07 16:08:47 archiso kernel: ata6: limiting SATA link speed to 3.0 Gbps
Sep 07 16:08:47 archiso kernel: ata6: hard resetting link
Sep 07 16:08:52 archiso kernel: ata6: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
Sep 07 16:08:52 archiso kernel: ata6: reset failed, giving up
Sep 07 16:08:52 archiso kernel: ata6.00: disabled
Sep 07 16:08:52 archiso kernel: ata6.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
Sep 07 16:08:52 archiso kernel: ata6.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0