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Error performing housekeeping for drive

Asked by Karl Reinwarth

Xubuntu 16.04 64bit installed 2month ago after system disk had died.
Running with no problems till 24 hrs ago. Since then about every 10 minutes it will beep and hdd access led will shine for about 5 seconds.
Message copied from syslog reads:

May 20 07:34:14 charly-i3 udisksd[1704]: Error performing housekeeping for drive /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/ST2000DL003_9VT166_5YD6TDZN: Error updating SMART data: Error sending ATA command CHECK POWER MODE: ATA command failed: error=0x01 count=0x01 status=0x50 (g-io-error-quark, 0)

when drive is mounted it will change to /dev/sdb which is my 2TB data drive

When watching movies stored on this drive player will freeze for about 1 minute and continue after that.
fsck brings no results.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Sounds like a failing drive. I suggest you get a new drive ASAP and reinstall. You can restore your user data from your backups

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Karl Reinwarth (charly-k-w) said : 		#2

since I wrote this question I have installed updates, made a restart and am now monitoring whether the problem will show again. Currently the drive is not mounted. If the updates have solved this i will close this. Am still fighting a problem with the software updater, so maybe there where updates overdue.
Thanks to actionparsnip but reinstalling will not be necessary for the system is on a not affected drive. And data has been backed up regulary.

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Karl Reinwarth (charly-k-w) said : 		#3

Problem seems to be solved. Works also flawless now with mounted volume.

I read somewhere else, that something like this could be caused by a bios problem. So any update that goes deep into the computerarchitecture could have been the solution,