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Q: External USB drive disconnects randomly

Hello,

 

I use a Mac mini as a Server and have two OWC MiniStacks attached to it. The Ministacks are connected via USB3 and are underneath the Mac mini. The Ministack in the middle started disconnecting randomly and I need to turn it off and back on to get it connected.

 

The Mac mini is always on and I use the USB drives as Server provided networked disks.

 

I have Seagate Enterprise Capacity Drives everywhere.

 

I get the following output in Console:

 

22/08/16 19:08:19,000 kernel[0] USB device 1E91B0B114700000 - BOT reset completed with kIOReturnTimeout.

22/08/16 19:08:19,000 kernel[0] USB device 1E91B0B114700000 - will be reset!

22/08/16 19:08:20,000 kernel[0] 1533181.822274 PRT7@14700000: AppleUSB30XHCIPort::resetAndCreateDevice: failed to create device after (1) tries, disabling port

22/08/16 19:08:21,000 kernel[0] USB device 1E91B0B114700000 - fConsecutiveResetCount = 1.

22/08/16 19:08:21,000 kernel[0] disk3s2: device/channel is not attached.

22/08/16 19:08:21,000 kernel[0] disk3s2: media is not present.

22/08/16 19:08:21,000 kernel[0] disk3s2: media is not present.

22/08/16 19:08:21,000 kernel[0] disk3s2: media is not present.

22/08/16 19:08:21,000 kernel[0] disk3s2: media is not present.

22/08/16 19:08:21,000 kernel[0] disk3s2: media is not present.

22/08/16 19:08:21,000 kernel[0] disk3s2: media is not present.

22/08/16 19:08:21,000 kernel[0] disk3s2: media is not present.

22/08/16 19:08:21,000 kernel[0] disk3s2: media is not present.

22/08/16 19:08:21,000 kernel[0] disk3s2: media is not present.

22/08/16 19:08:21,000 kernel[0] disk3s2: media is not present.

22/08/16 19:08:21,000 kernel[0] disk3s2: media is not present.

22/08/16 19:08:21,000 kernel[0] disk3s2: media is not present.

22/08/16 19:08:21,000 kernel[0] disk3s2: media is not present.

22/08/16 19:08:21,000 kernel[0] disk3s2: media is not present.

22/08/16 19:08:21,000 kernel[0] disk3s2: media is not present.

...

22/08/16 19:08:21,000 kernel[0] disk3s2: media is not present.

22/08/16 19:08:21,000 kernel[0] hfs: err 6 reading VH blk (vol=SERVER DATA 2)

22/08/16 19:08:21,000 kernel[0] disk3s2: media is not present.

22/08/16 19:08:21,000 kernel[0] hfs: err 6 reading VH blk (vol=SERVER DATA 2)

22/08/16 19:08:21,000 kernel[0] disk3s2: media is not present.

...

22/08/16 19:08:22,000 kernel[0] hfs: err 6 reading VH blk (vol=SERVER DATA 2)

22/08/16 19:08:22,000 kernel[0] hfs: unmount initiated on SERVER DATA 2 on device disk3s2

22/08/16 19:08:22,000 kernel[0] disk3s2: media is not present.

22/08/16 19:08:22,000 kernel[0] hfs: err 6 reading VH blk (vol=SERVER DATA 2)

22/08/16 19:08:22,000 kernel[0] disk3s2: media is not present.

22/08/16 19:08:22,000 kernel[0] hfs: err 6 reading VH blk (vol=SERVER DATA 2)

22/08/16 19:08:22,000 kernel[0] disk3s2: media is not present.

22/08/16 19:08:22,000 kernel[0] jnl: disk3s2: do_jnl_io: strategy err 0x6

22/08/16 19:08:22,000 kernel[0] jnl: disk3s2: write_journal_header: error writing the journal header!

22/08/16 19:08:22,775 fseventsd[61] disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/SERVER DATA 2/.fseventsd/00000000088fc0e6 (No such file or directory). mount point /Volumes/SERVER DATA 2/.fseventsd

22/08/16 19:08:22,776 fseventsd[61] disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/SERVER DATA 2/.fseventsd/00000000088fc0e6 (No such file or directory). mount point /Volumes/SERVER DATA 2/.fseventsd

22/08/16 19:08:23,085 deleted[695] normalizeUserMountpoint:791 volRoot failed for /Volumes/SERVER DATA 2

22/08/16 19:08:23,085 deleted[695] _validateVolume:813 unable to normalize volume: "/Volumes/SERVER DATA 2", vol: (null)

22/08/16 19:08:26,148 certadmin[97828] Connected to the Notify Service

 

 

What is going on?

Failing HDD?

Failing Enclosure?

Screwed up Mac mini?

 

Thank you very much in advance!

Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Aug 23, 2016 9:23 PM

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