RAID0 Help!

[audiohere]

System was built 7 months ago and has never worked right. With intensions of purchasing Vista with Windows 7 upgrade, I was never able to perform a Windows update or Windows disk defragmenter. Update would have an error and defragmenter would hang for 8+ hours.

I have been having blue screen errors related to the memory after extended use. When my PC was working last, I had my cell phone connected to the USB drive to charge and not thinking, I rerstarted the PC. Usually I have to unplug the USB and restart, which I did.

During post, all hard drives and storage devices are present.

When the Intel Matrix Storage Manager appears, RAID Volume has a Status of Normal and Bootable is Yes. Under Physical Disks, Port 1 displays the Type/Status(Vol ID) as "Error Occurred (0)" and Port 3 appears as "Member Disk (0)".

What has been tried:
Boot Normally to Windows: System hangs for 1+ hours.
F8 to Safe Mode (all options tried): System hangs for 1+ hours.
Last known working configuration: System hangs for 1+ hours.
Inserted Windows Vista 64 disk to attempt recovery console: "Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause." has a Status: 0x0000225 and Info states: "An unexpected Error Occurred."

Unfortunately, I just moved the data from another PC a few months ago and do not have a full backup of the data. For this reason I have not tried to delete the RAID volume and create another simply because I don't know if this will delete the data.

I purchased 2 more WD1001FALS today as well as 2 copies of Windows 7 Ultimate 64. If I setup 7 on the 2 new drives in a RAID0 configuration, can I go back later and connect my original 2 drives to add to the array without loosing my data?

One other option I thought of was to install 7 on the 2 new drives and connect my original 2 as regular hard drives and then run chkdsk on them.

I'm really stressing out here! Any help is much appreciated.

Audiohere

 

[sub mesa]

Fix the PC?

First get a stable system:
- memtest without problems
- check SMART output on HDDs

If you need to recover the contents on the RAID, try this:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/252965-14-transfer-raid-array#t1781278

 

[Paperdoc]

Your story has conflicting facts. You say the Intel Matrix Storage Manager says you have a RAID volume that is Normal and Bootable. Yet it also tells you that, of the two disks you have, one is good and one has an error condition. Your title says this is a RAID0 array, and your machine apparently cannot even get started on loading Windows from the HDD system. So is all is consistent in indicating a corrupted member disk in a RAID0 array, EXCEPT that you are being told that array is OK and bootable!!

You CAN install two new drives in a new RAID0 array and install Win 7 to them. This will NOT do anything to solve the problem on your old array, however. It only will give you a machine that can run fine on the new array.

Once you have errors on one disk of a RAID0 array, your hopes of recovering ANYTHING from that system are about zero. Does not matter whether you have hardware trouble or just corrupted data in a VERY limited section of the one disk. Since all of that system's files are interleaved between the two drives you need BOTH to be error-free to get anything from them. In some cases you might have trouble only with one or two files corrupted, but that obviously is not your case.

Having a fully functioning new RAID0 array working still won't make recovery of your old array any easier. If you break up the old array back down to individual independent drives, neither will have any meaningful data you can recover. Running Chkdsk or any other utility on them will only make it even more impossible, (if that's possible). IF you want to simply say goodbye to all your old data and try to fix the two old drives so they can be re-used again, the simple process might be to break the array and treat each old drive like any other - repair what you can, use if possible - and forget their former roles as array members.

You CAN look around for utilities that will try to recover as much or your old data as possible from a degraded RAID0 array. That might even be easier once you have the new array installed and working under Win 7. In that scenario at least you'd have a place to copy any recovered data to. If you want to try that, stop trying to do anything further with your old array. Install the new drives and Win 7. Make SURE you don't do anything with the old array as you do this. Don't try to use the old array at all until you have done what you can to try data recovery from them.

 

[sub mesa]

You may want to post your SMART info here. You get the SMART information from your HDD by using a small application that can read SMART info. If using Ubuntu, simply open a terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal) and type:

# this installs smartmontools - a program that reads SMART info
sudo apt-get install smartmontools
# now use smartctl to retrieve info from your HDD:
sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda

You may have to turn on SMART first, "man smartctl" gives you more options. If you execute the smartctl command as above and it displays a long list of data, then you're good. Copy&Paste the data over here for us to look at.

Also, try reading from your disk:
sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=1M
(warning: do not make mistakes with this command or it may lead to data-loss!)
(currently, this command reads from disk /dev/sda from begin to end, and does nothing with the data (gets written to /dev/null which means this command only reads and does not write anything)

 

[audiohere]

I added a few photos of the known issue. The only other thing I noticed was when I reset my BIOS and reconfigured, No drives show in BIOS with RAID enabled.

Photos:
http://s918.photobucket.com/albums/ad30/audiohere/

Thanks again for the help.

Audiohere


BTW, my system specs are listed in my public profile under system specs.

 

[sub mesa]

Just a broken RAID0 setup - your data is still recoverable!

 

[audiohere]

Wow Sub mesa I love this utility!

The following was copied from the terminal. I think I need a bit of help with turning the SMART on though.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ #this installs smartmontools - a program that reads smart info
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install smartmontools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
bsd-mailx mailx postfix
Suggested packages:
procmail postfix-mysql postfix-pgsql postfix-ldap postfix-pcre sasl2-bin
resolvconf postfix-cdb
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bsd-mailx mailx postfix smartmontools
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,804kB of archives.
After this operation, 4,411kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main postfix 2.6.5-3
Could not resolve 'archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main bsd-mailx 8.1.2-0.20081101cvs-2ubuntu1
Could not resolve 'archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main mailx 1:20081101-2ubuntu1
Could not resolve 'archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main smartmontools 5.38-3ubuntu2
Could not resolve 'archive.ubuntu.com'
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/postfix/postfix_2.6.5-3_i386.deb Could not resolve 'archive.ubuntu.com'
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/bsd-mailx/bsd-mailx_8.1.2-0.20081101cvs-2ubuntu1_i386.deb Could not resolve 'archive.ubuntu.com'
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/bsd-mailx/mailx_20081101-2ubuntu1_all.deb Could not resolve 'archive.ubuntu.com'
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/smartmontools/smartmontools_5.38-3ubuntu2_i386.deb Could not resolve 'archive.ubuntu.com'
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ^C
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install smartmontools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
bsd-mailx mailx postfix
Suggested packages:
procmail postfix-mysql postfix-pgsql postfix-ldap postfix-pcre sasl2-bin resolvconf postfix-cdb
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bsd-mailx mailx postfix smartmontools
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,804kB of archives.
After this operation, 4,411kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main postfix 2.6.5-3 [1,304kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main bsd-mailx 8.1.2-0.20081101cvs-2ubuntu1 [160kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main mailx 1:20081101-2ubuntu1 [8,516B]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main smartmontools 5.38-3ubuntu2 [332kB]
Fetched 1,804kB in 15s (114kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package postfix.
(Reading database ... 120319 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking postfix (from .../postfix_2.6.5-3_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package bsd-mailx.
Unpacking bsd-mailx (from .../bsd-mailx_8.1.2-0.20081101cvs-2ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package mailx.
Unpacking mailx (from .../mailx_1%3a20081101-2ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package smartmontools.
Unpacking smartmontools (from .../smartmontools_5.38-3ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for sreadahead ...
Processing triggers for ufw ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 25 changed 1 added doc-base file(s)...
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Setting up postfix (2.6.5-3) ...
Adding group `postfix' (GID 121) ...
Done.
Adding system user `postfix' (UID 113) ...
Adding new user `postfix' (UID 113) with group `postfix' ...
Not creating home directory `/var/spool/postfix'.
Creating /etc/postfix/dynamicmaps.cf
Adding tcp map entry to /etc/postfix/dynamicmaps.cf
Adding group `postdrop' (GID 122) ...
Done.
setting myhostname: ubuntu
setting alias maps
setting alias database
changing /etc/mailname to gmail.com
setting myorigin
setting destinations: gmail.com, ubuntu, localhost.localdomain, localhost
setting relayhost:
setting mynetworks: 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128
setting mailbox_size_limit: 0
setting recipient_delimiter: +
setting inet_interfaces: all
/etc/aliases does not exist, creating it.
WARNING: /etc/aliases exists, but does not have a root alias.

Postfix is now set up with a default configuration. If you need to make
changes, edit
/etc/postfix/main.cf (and others) as needed. To view Postfix configuration
values, see postconf(1).

After modifying main.cf, be sure to run '/etc/init.d/postfix reload'.

Running newaliases
* Stopping Postfix Mail Transport Agent postfix [ OK ]
* Starting Postfix Mail Transport Agent postfix [ OK ]

Setting up bsd-mailx (8.1.2-0.20081101cvs-2ubuntu1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/bsd-mailx to provide /usr/bin/mailx (mailx) in auto mode.

Setting up mailx (1:20081101-2ubuntu1) ...
Setting up smartmontools (5.38-3ubuntu2) ...

Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ #now use smartctl to retrieve info from your HDD:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo smartctl -a/dev/sda
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=======> UNRECOGNIZED OPTION: /

Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo smartctl -h/dev/sda
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Usage: smartctl [options] device

============================================ SHOW INFORMATION OPTIONS =====

-h, --help, --usage
Display this help and exit

-V, --version, --copyright, --license
Print license, copyright, and version information and exit

-i, --info
Show identity information for device

-a, --all
Show all SMART information for device

================================== SMARTCTL RUN-TIME BEHAVIOR OPTIONS =====

-q TYPE, --quietmode=TYPE (ATA)
Set smartctl quiet mode to one of: errorsonly, silent, noserial

-d TYPE, --device=TYPE
Specify device type to one of: ata, scsi, marvell, sat, 3ware,N

-T TYPE, --tolerance=TYPE (ATA)
Tolerance: normal, conservative, permissive, verypermissive

-b TYPE, --badsum=TYPE (ATA)
Set action on bad checksum to one of: warn, exit, ignore

-r TYPE, --report=TYPE
Report transactions (see man page)

-n MODE, --nocheck=MODE (ATA)
No check if: never, sleep, standby, idle (see man page)

============================== DEVICE FEATURE ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS =====

-s VALUE, --smart=VALUE
Enable/disable SMART on device (on/off)

-o VALUE, --offlineauto=VALUE (ATA)
Enable/disable automatic offline testing on device (on/off)

-S VALUE, --saveauto=VALUE (ATA)
Enable/disable Attribute autosave on device (on/off)

======================================= READ AND DISPLAY DATA OPTIONS =====

-H, --health
Show device SMART health status

-c, --capabilities (ATA)
Show device SMART capabilities

-A, --attributes
Show device SMART vendor-specific Attributes and values

-l TYPE, --log=TYPE
Show device log. TYPE: error, selftest, selective, directory,
background, scttemp[sts,hist]

-v N,OPTION , --vendorattribute=N,OPTION (ATA)
Set display OPTION for vendor Attribute N (see man page)

-F TYPE, --firmwarebug=TYPE (ATA)
Use firmware bug workaround: none, samsung, samsung2,
samsung3, swapid

-P TYPE, --presets=TYPE (ATA)
Drive-specific presets: use, ignore, show, showall

============================================ DEVICE SELF-TEST OPTIONS =====

-t TEST, --test=TEST
Run test. TEST: offline short long conveyance select,M-N
pending,N afterselect,[on|off] scttempint,N[,p]

-C, --captive
Do test in captive mode (along with -t)

-X, --abort
Abort any non-captive test on device

=================================================== SMARTCTL EXAMPLES =====

smartctl --all /dev/hda (Prints all SMART information)

smartctl --smart=on --offlineauto=on --saveauto=on /dev/hda
(Enables SMART on first disk)

smartctl --test=long /dev/hda (Executes extended disk self-test)

smartctl --attributes --log=selftest --quietmode=errorsonly /dev/hda
(Prints Self-Test & Attribute errors)
smartctl --all --device=3ware,2 /dev/sda
smartctl --all --device=3ware,2 /dev/twe0
smartctl --all --device=3ware,2 /dev/twa0
(Prints all SMART info for 3rd ATA disk on 3ware RAID controller)
smartctl --all --device=hpt,1/1/3 /dev/sda
(Prints all SMART info for the SATA disk attached to the 3rd PMPort
of the 1st channel on the 1st HighPoint RAID controller)
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=1M
dd: reading `/dev/sda': Input/output error
327+1 records in
327+1 records out
342888448 bytes (343 MB) copied, 46.8688 s, 7.3 MB/s
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

 

[sub mesa]

Hey there! You're almost done, you made a slight typo with the second last command:

sudo smartctl -a/dev/sda
should be:
sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda
(the space after -a)

Also, your last command indicates a bad sector at 327MiB/343MB location. The smart log should have more info on this. Please retry the command as above and post the information here, and we can have a look.

 

[audiohere]

If I use the command as you state above, I get "Command not found" returned.

On another headache side note, when I look at Palimpsest Disk Utility under Administration, 1st disk shows as 2000GB RAID Component and second shows as 18446743074 GB Free Unallocated Space.

Please tell me my data may still be there...

 

[sub mesa]

Did you try the command after rebooting the livecd? Remember, while using the livecd anything you install is gone after you reboot. So you would need to:

sudo apt-get install smartmontools
sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda

you can try /dev/sdb for second hdd etc. To get a list of your drives:
dmesg | grep sd

Also look in GParted (Partition Editor) under System->Administration to help you determine what drives get which names.

 

[audiohere]

OK, I understand that ubuntu is loaded each time I reboot and that the settings are not saved.

To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
See "man sudo_root" for details.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ # this installs smartmontools - a program that reads smart info
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install smartmontools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
bsd-mailx mailx postfix
Suggested packages:
procmail postfix-mysql postfix-pgsql postfix-ldap postfix-pcre sasl2-bin resolvconf postfix-cdb
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bsd-mailx mailx postfix smartmontools
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,804kB of archives.
After this operation, 4,411kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main postfix 2.6.5-3 [1,304kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main bsd-mailx 8.1.2-0.20081101cvs-2ubuntu1 [160kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main mailx 1:20081101-2ubuntu1 [8,516B]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main smartmontools 5.38-3ubuntu2 [332kB]
Fetched 1,804kB in 1s (912kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package postfix.
(Reading database ... 120319 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking postfix (from .../postfix_2.6.5-3_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package bsd-mailx.
Unpacking bsd-mailx (from .../bsd-mailx_8.1.2-0.20081101cvs-2ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package mailx.
Unpacking mailx (from .../mailx_1%3a20081101-2ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package smartmontools.
Unpacking smartmontools (from .../smartmontools_5.38-3ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for sreadahead ...
Processing triggers for ufw ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 25 changed 1 added doc-base file(s)...
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Setting up postfix (2.6.5-3) ...
Adding group `postfix' (GID 121) ...
Done.
Adding system user `postfix' (UID 113) ...
Adding new user `postfix' (UID 113) with group `postfix' ...
Not creating home directory `/var/spool/postfix'.
Creating /etc/postfix/dynamicmaps.cf
Adding tcp map entry to /etc/postfix/dynamicmaps.cf
Adding group `postdrop' (GID 122) ...
Done.
setting myhostname: ubuntu
setting alias maps
setting alias database
changing /etc/mailname to gmail.com
setting myorigin
setting destinations: gmail.com, ubuntu, localhost.localdomain, localhost
setting relayhost:
setting mynetworks: 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128
setting mailbox_size_limit: 0
setting recipient_delimiter: +
setting inet_interfaces: all
/etc/aliases does not exist, creating it.
WARNING: /etc/aliases exists, but does not have a root alias.

Postfix is now set up with a default configuration. If you need to make
changes, edit
/etc/postfix/main.cf (and others) as needed. To view Postfix configuration
values, see postconf(1).

After modifying main.cf, be sure to run '/etc/init.d/postfix reload'.

Running newaliases
* Stopping Postfix Mail Transport Agent postfix [ OK ]
* Starting Postfix Mail Transport Agent postfix [ OK ]

Setting up bsd-mailx (8.1.2-0.20081101cvs-2ubuntu1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/bsd-mailx to provide /usr/bin/mailx (mailx) in auto mode.

Setting up mailx (1:20081101-2ubuntu1) ...
Setting up smartmontools (5.38-3ubuntu2) ...

Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ # now use smartctl to retrieve info from your HDD:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: WDC WD1001FALS-00J7B1
Serial Number: WD-WMATV2769128
Firmware Version: 05.00K05
User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Thu Feb 25 16:36:44 2010 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdb
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: WDC WD1001FALS-00J7B1
Serial Number: WD-WMATV2749700
Firmware Version: 05.00K05
User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Thu Feb 25 16:43:22 2010 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity
was suspended by an interrupting command from host.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (19200) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 221) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x303f) SCT Status supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 225 225 021 Pre-fail Always - 8733
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 165
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 096 096 000 Old_age Always - 3237
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 79
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 19
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 165
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 120 109 000 Old_age Always - 30
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 1
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 6
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]


SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.


Gparted shows /dev/sda (931.51 GiB) and /dev/sdb (931.51 GiB) both show Unallocated under partition and File System.

Please let me know what the next step is Sub Mesa.

Thanks

 

[sub mesa]

The SMART info on the /dev/sdb device looks good, no apparent errors here. However, i did not get the full output of the smartctl -a /dev/sda command; it appears data is missing after:

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity
..
(more data should be here)
..
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdb

Could you maybe try again? It might be worthwhile to check for disk damage prior to trying to recover. Probably the /dev/sda disk has some bad sectors as the surface check you performed (the sudo dd command) indicates a failure at some point.

 

[sub mesa]

Perhaps this forum doesn't allow you to post messages this big. In that case, please only paste the output for the "sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda" command.

 

[audiohere]

Yeah, that's the case, must have been too big. Returned:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: WDC WD1001FALS-00J7B1
Serial Number: WD-WMATV2769128
Firmware Version: 05.00K05
User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Thu Feb 25 17:51:18 2010 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity
was suspended by an interrupting command from host.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (19200) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 221) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x303f) SCT Status supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 231 230 021 Pre-fail Always - 8416
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 165
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 096 096 000 Old_age Always - 3238
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 79
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 19
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 165
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 121 110 000 Old_age Always - 29
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 1
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 9
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]


SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

 

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