Is problem machine, not drive?
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 2:56 am
Some time last year I replaced an apparently ailing rotary hard drive with a 500GB SSD, and successfully installed Ubuntu LT 12.04 on it as /dev/sdb1, followed later by a desktop-less Ubuntu 15.10 at /dev/sdb2, each of them allotted a too-generous roughly 250GB.
Maybe three months ago, I started to have trouble with 12.04 on the SSD. I decided to back up what I needed and reformat /dev/sdb1 for a fresh install. But all attempts to reformat the partition, as well as the whole drive, fell short. My guess was the drive had gone bad, and I really regretted not remembering where I had bought it and whether I had a warranty on it.
Today I received and installed a new, smaller SSD, and set about installing Ubuntu 12.04 on it. Well, same problem, which I will try to illustrate with a screen shot. This suggests to me that there must be something wrong with my nice X1000 that prevents proper communication with some devices. So far, /dev/sda which contains all my AOS stuff plus a slightly sickly version of Ubuntu 12.04 seems OK.
What can I do to precisely analyze the situation?
Maybe three months ago, I started to have trouble with 12.04 on the SSD. I decided to back up what I needed and reformat /dev/sdb1 for a fresh install. But all attempts to reformat the partition, as well as the whole drive, fell short. My guess was the drive had gone bad, and I really regretted not remembering where I had bought it and whether I had a warranty on it.
Today I received and installed a new, smaller SSD, and set about installing Ubuntu 12.04 on it. Well, same problem, which I will try to illustrate with a screen shot. This suggests to me that there must be something wrong with my nice X1000 that prevents proper communication with some devices. So far, /dev/sda which contains all my AOS stuff plus a slightly sickly version of Ubuntu 12.04 seems OK.
What can I do to precisely analyze the situation?