On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Mauro Santos <registo.mailling@xxxxxxxxx> 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.