[Swlug] Mysterious errors

[Alan Gray]

Surely mmcblk1 is a partition. The command 'mmc extcsd read' expects a device.

Ultimately I think you have reached decision time. Repair, replace or some measure to keep it functioning. Your choice!
Regards
Alan Gray


On 9 January 2024 01:35:23 GMT, Rhys Sage via Swlug <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>Good Heavens, I had no idea EMMC was a separate thing from an SSD. Well, I installed MMC-Utils. Doing that, it suggested I used sudo apt autoremove to remove unused installation files. That is reportedly freeing 3GB of space
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>Using mmc extcsd read /dev/mmcblk1 I go an error that said:
>open: No such file or directory
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>Curious and I would follow further but it's 8:35pm and a little past my bedtime give my 4AM starts and 12 hour working day.
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>On Monday, 8 January 2024 at 15:35:52 GMT-5, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden at fastmail.fm> wrote: 
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>Rhys,
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>The Sandisk DF4064 is a 64GB EMMC drive.  So not exactly SSD, not exactly SDcard.  I suspect that to run useful hardware diagnostics on it, you will have to use software that is specifically designed to test EMMC drives.
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>Jonathan
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>On Mon, 8 Jan 2024, at 17:36, Rhys Sage via Swlug wrote:
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>> My built-in SSD comes up as a DF4064 and is listed somewhat curiously 
>> under SD Card reader in the Disks utility. 
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>> I understood SSDs would automatically bar bad blocks from being used. 
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>> I just looked at a video of some guy replacing the SSD on his e203M. It 
>> seems a simple process. The trouble is that the battery is also not 
>> much good any more and the letters are rubbing off the keyboard. All of 
>> those are replaceable but at $40 for a SSD, goodness knows how much for 
>> the battery and for the keyboard, I'd be well on the way toward the 
>> price of a brand new Asus with up to date equipment (CPU etc).
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>> Maybe I just need to get a pretty big memory stick, assign it to backup 
>> for my E203MA (I have another Asus that is used solely for writing 
>> books, video processing and programming. Then when the E203MA finally 
>> falls on its face, just get a new laptop to replace it.
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>>   1. Re: Mysterious errors (Alan Gray)
>> Hello Rhys,
>> I took a quick look online which seems to suggest this model was fitted 
>> with a Sandisk DA4064  64GB eMMC. There was a suggestion it might be 
>> soldered in place. When you say it has SSD did you mean it is a 
>> removable SATA SSD?
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>> These things can vary over the life of the machine. It seems likely, 
>> having regard to age, that the storage 'drive' is failing. Can you 
>> change it?
>> Regards
>> Alan Gray
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>> On 8 January 2024 00:52:12 GMT, Rhys Sage via Swlug 
>> <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>>>  Matt, it's running off an SSD. The e203MA which I'm using has an onboard 60GB SSD. There is an SD slot but I don't have SD currently inserted.Rhys Sage
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