Hi.
I´ve running last updaate of OSMC on an RPI 3, with a 1tb external drive usb attached, ntfs format. The drive is also shared to my win7 laptop through smb-shares.conf file.
Until now, i´ve had no problems at all.
But since a few days, anytime i try to transfer files from the laptop to the pi (with destination on the atached usb drive), the operation always fail after a while, showing an error saying just that it is impossible to complete the operation, and next the disk is showing just “empty”. If i browse directly on the pi, it´s the same.
If i reboot the system, all just seems fine again, with all my files and the drive mounted.
If i try a new transfer, goes to the same again…If i try to play a movie, it just stops suddenly after 6 o 7 minutes, and then again the disk is showing as “empty”, until a new reboot.
I´ve checked the disk for bad sectors or hardware failure, but it´s perfectly ok (it has 3 months of use).
I´ve reformated the disk to ext4, and i have the same behaviour.
Tried transfers through smb and ftp, same problem…
I can´t say for sure if this is related to the last recent update, but i think the issue begins with that.
I can´t see nothing related on the last logs. It just seems the disk is unmounted minutes after a transfer or movie play starts… or is deniyng permissions…
I konw my explanation is not very clear, but i appreciatte any possible help with this.
Thanks in advance.
UPDATE:
Did some more tests, transfer a couple of small files, all of them fine, but failed to create a folder.
Transfer a file sized 11 Gb, failed when reached about 9 Gb size…
Is the drive powered via USB, or a seperate power supply? If it’s powered via usb, try adding max_usb_current=1 to /boot/config.txt, or use a powered usb hub.
With 3 months 24/7 fully working ok until now ?? I don´t think that may be the solution to the issue, maybe a workaround in case… But i want to know what´s causing this.
Much appreciated, regards.
Power is 2.5 A, and just repeat, all the set (RPI 3 and all cables or devices) has no more than 3 months. No new usb devices added. Just like from the start, the usb hdd and a bluetooth dongle for a minikeyboard remote.
Did some more tests, transfer a couple of small files, all of them fine, but failed to create a folder.
Transfer a file sized 11 Gb, failed when reached about 9 Gb size…
Some more:
After replicating the issue another time, i´ve checked the storage tab and now it shows the usb drive is mounted on /dev/sdb1/ … So, it seems its mounted on sda1 on fresh start and then fails and mounts on sdb1… ¿¿???
Now this seems really weird… I´ve changed the propietary usbe cable supported from Western Digital when purchased the external hdd (the one who has a “double” micro usb connector) with another generic usb to micro usb i had left on a drawer…
Guess what… It seems the issue is gone ¿?¿ Made a few large transfers and the completed 100% without problems…
Gonna do some more huge and massive transfers to check, but, i can´t understand the reason of this happening.
I sure do! The Y USB cable was drawing twice the power from the Pi. That’s the purpose of that cable. I’m surprised that it works at all with a regular cable, but glad to hear that it works.