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

[Jordan Windsor]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Jordan Windsor <jordanw2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I checked the cables many times, including the SATA ports used, the
hard drive wouldn't work in any configuration.
Thanks. (Solution found, get a new hard drive :) )