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

[Jordan Windsor]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Mauro Santos
<registo.mailling at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Thanks, here's the error message displayed during boot and during
system run (not line wrapped correctly):

ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
BMDMA tsat 0x24
failed command: READ DMA EXT
cmd 25/00:08:e8:83:0a/00:00:28:00:00/e0
tag 0 dma 4096 in res 51/40:00:18:8d:0c/40:00:28:00:00/e0 Emsk 0x9 (media error)
Status: {DRDY ERR}
error: {UNC} Configured for UDMA1133
GH Complete

I'll reboot now and check the cables, Thanks.