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