Hoping somebody here will have an answer, because I cannot find one by searching online.

I’m running OPNSense on a HP box and it has recently started coming up with SMART Hard Disk Error 301 errors on boot.

Looking into it more, it’s because the usage is >100%. I’m fine with the risks, and I’m already making provisions to a fallback, but having to plug into a keyboard every time I reboot is annoying.

I’ve been through every BIOS menu option and have updated the BIOS itself, but I can’t seem to disable these checks.

Does anybody have any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

  • _EuroTrash_@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Usage of what is > 100%? CPU? Probably stuck in IOwait cycles because your system drive (or its controller) is failing eg. retrying writes or reads.

    Ignoring suddenly appearing SMART errors is generally a bad idea.

    • ITapKeyboards@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      No, not the CPU. The disk. After a certain amount of hours, the disk is deemed at risk of failure, it’s a statistics thing.

      Like I said In my post, I’m well aware of the risks.

  • FrumunduhCheese@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’d actually try and fix the issue and switch to an ssd boot drive. Why waste time energy effort and now bandwidth ?