I don’t know much, so I can’t say much.
Suddenly, yesterday, while Space Marine 2 and other games were updating on Steam, Space Marine 2 gave a “Disk Write Error” and all other games (on the same drive) couldn’t write faster than 10MiB/s on it.
It’s an SSD.
I’ll explain more in a moment, but:
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I asked my brother to try using Steam on Fedora (he has it but still uses W10 all the time). BEFORE updating (still on Kernel 7.17) he updated SM2, and it went swiftly. Then he installed all the updates, restarted the machine, and updated Helldivers 2 and Darktide. They both went smootly.
I want to see if deleting SM2 from the drive and reinstalling from 0 may fix the issue, BUT I WILL NOT DO IT RIGHT NOW IN CASE SOMEONE WHO KNOWS MORE THAN ME HAS SOME DIAGNOSTIC TEST TO MAKE ME DO. -
I managed to “temporarily fix” this (at least make it function, because it seems to WANT to break over and over again again), but now it went down to that speed once again, and then it started boing at 210MiB/s again, and literally now it just crashed once more…
I have to edit the whole text in real time as I am trying to figure this out in real time. I have been at this for almost 3 hours…
I really hope my SSD ain’t dieing. IT’S JUST OVER 2 YEARS OLD!!!
It gave the Write Error 3 more times (as I am trying to figure stuff out, right now), and now I installed a software to test the SSD.
Even tho it says “the drive is fine” I’ll say more later tho, I have to describe the whole issue…
So,
“Disk Write Error” on Steam’s download, written in bold, and red letters.
I tried to manually delete or create files on there, but it wouldn’t let me.
I then tried to remove and add back the folder to Steam, and I was greeted with this:
So I was afraid the SSD is dieing, but at least from what SMART is telling me it should be allright… (I can do more tests later):
Now, after the “fix”, Space Marines 2 does the “writing small files consecutively dance”, but after not even 8% of the way it just gives the error…
I tested all the OTHER drives and they seem to function normally.
How did I “fix” this?
Basically, I went to KDE Partition Manager, unmounted the drive, ran this Mounting permanently a Storage unit in Fedora KDE (automount at boot, no password, all users can see and edit files) - #37 by isaac0clarke again and then re-mounted it.
Now, after I did this THE FIRST TIME, I just unmount and remount the 2tb SSD and it works… until it doesn’t once again. I do not re-run the commands every time.
I actually tried to run
sudo setfacl -R -m d:o::rwx /NEW-DRIVE-2tb_SSD_Ext4
sudo setfacl -R -m o::rwx /NEW-DRIVE-2tb_SSD_Ext4
when the drive was still mounted, and A LOT of text was flashing on the screen, until “it was done” (nothing changed) and then I tried doing the same from here
but it says “failed to change stuff”, starting from Blender folders (which could be important, but I don’t know what or why; as you can see, blender is the fourth program inside the
/NEW-DRIVE-2tb_SSD_Ext4/Steam_Games/steamapps/common/ folder AND Amid Evil has the first data in “the queue/list” which is not folders, since steamapps and common are the very first folders of every containing folder before).
As I said above, I managed to make the SSD work again, but after Steam tries to update Space Marine 2 it stops working, with Space Marine 2 giving “Disk Write Error” and other games updating at VERY SLOW SPEEDS.
I REALLY hope it’s either Steam having this bug, or Space Marine 2 spasming out for some dumb reason (the files in the “download folder” are basically 77gb, because I guess Steam first creates a dummy version of the game there, updates that one, and only then replaces the old version with the updated one, to avoid a full re-download I guess???).
As said above I asked my brother to try it out himself, and nothing bad seems to be happening…
I hope I get a solution ASAP because this is bad. The SSD can’t be written/modified once Disk Write Error occurs on Steam…
