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From: "Arthur Țițeică" <arthur@×××××××××××××.ro>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is my SSD dying?
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2017 09:54:56
Message-Id: 16C6D4DE-D38D-465B-93C9-8BCD286AA1F8@cloud.titeica.ro
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Is my SSD dying? by Peter Humphrey
1 În 1 septembrie 2017 12:46:39 EEST, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> a scris:
2 >Hello list,
3 >
4 >For the last week or two my NVMe SSD isn't being detected on startup. I
5 >get
6 >this error on manual invocation:
7 >
8 ># smartctl -a /dev/nvme0n1
9 >smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [x86_64-linux-4.12.5-gentoo] (local
10 >build)
11 >Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke,
12 >www.smartmontools.org
13 >
14 >/dev/nvme0n1: Unable to detect device type
15 >Please specify device type with the -d option.
16 >
17
18 Smartmontools supports NVMe starting from version 6.5.
19
20 >
21 >Most things still seem to be working, but do I need to rush out and buy
22 >
23 >another drive? This one's only 18 months old. I don't really want to
24 >box up
25 >the machine and send it to Watford under warranty.
26 >
27 >Two things that aren't working properly are KMail (surprise!), and
28 >BOINC,
29 >which insists that VirtualBox isn't installed, when of course it (more
30 >or
31 >less) always has been.
32
33 Is the boinc user in the vboxusers group?

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