[arch-general] Possible hard drive failure, DMA errors.

[Jordan Windsor]

Hello,
I was downloading 3 movies via sabnzbd (~5GB each), after awhile I
noticed the system wasn't responding as much, RhythmBox wasn't playing
anymore, sabnzbd wasn't making progress and my broswer also was
slowing down a bit.
I then decided to restart thinking it would solve what ever problems
sabnzbd brought along, when I did that it didn't reboot it just logged
me out, I couldn't log back in, it would accept my password and
username but after that nothing would happen, I then hard powered it
off, on start-up it wouldn't get past the "mounting local filesystems"
part of the boot process, it would just print DMA errors and more.
I'm running PassMark's DiskCheckup on both my disks, on the first the
quick self check completes quickly without error, but the second drive
doesn't get past 10% (starts on 10%) and shows "The last self-test
routine completed with a failure of the read element."
I was wondering is my disk 100% gone? or is the some chance of getting
my RAID0 data off? although 90% is easily replaceable (movies).
Thanks. (I'll reply later with the details of the error messages
displayed during boot.)