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

[Mauro Santos]

On 11-02-2012 21:08, Jordan Windsor wrote:
> 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.)
> 

Check the connections/cables, if the connections/cables are ok and you
have a failing disk then I'd say you should consider you data as lost
since it is on a raid0 array.

-- 
Mauro Santos