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Old 17th November 2008
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Default Hard drive error on boot 'READ_DMA timed out'

When booting FreeBSD 7.0 I get the following messages for my mates spare SATA drive:
ad7: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 timed out LBA=18446744073709551614
ad7: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out LBA=18446744073709551599
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The if I do a fdisk /dev/ad7 it shows me that it's a FreeBSD drive when in fact this is in Linux ext3 format. It shows up in sysinstall -> Configure -> Fdisk as Size 0, End is -1, Name is '-', PType of 12 and Desc of 'unused'.

This drive was in a caddy and I have a feeling that someone plugged in the wrong power inlet whilst it was in the caddy.

Is there a way to mount this drive and recover some of the data?
It is only coming up with /dev/ad7 in the devices and I cannot mount this. When I try the command:
mount -t ext2fs /dev/ad7 /mnt

This gives me
mount: /dev/ad7 : Input/output error

Should I waste anymore time on this drive?
It seems to be giving up/timing out in the kernel, is there a way to override this behavior and tell the kernel to keep trying and skip bad blocks?
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Which motherboard/chipset you have?
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I've got an ASUS P5N-EM HDMI with an nvidia i630 chipset. This works with my main hard drive which is a Samsung 80GB SATA drive and I've tested other SATA drives on there which work fine. The chipset can handle SATA 1 and SATA 2.

The suspect hard drive is a: Seagate 7200.11 1TB SATA drive.

The drive does spin up and keeps spinning when the OS is fully booted. Sometimes though it makes some bad noises. If I could somehow increase the timeout maybe it would skip those bad parts of the drive.
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Ouch. Hard drive errors. The standard way is to use ddrescue to (try to) extract the data, and then work on a copy of that data.
The program 'testdisk' can detect permissions and rebuild MBRs.

Best of luck with that, but you may well have fried the controller. If so, the only option is a 'brain swap' (replace the controller board with one from an identical drive).

It all depends on how valuable the data on the drive is.
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I tried ddrescue & testdisk and here are the errors:

# ddrescue /dev/ad7 testdump sdb.log

Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
Initial status (read from logfile)
rescued: 0 B, errsize: 0 B, errors: 0
Current status
rescued: 0 B, errsize: 0 B, current rate: 0 B/s
ipos: 0 B, errors: 0, average rate: 0 B/s
opos: 0 B



# testdisk /log /dev/ad7
TestDisk 6.9, Data Recovery Utility, February 2008
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Unable to open file or device /dev/ad7
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Try with dd(1) instead, if with this one single byte can not be rescued forget about it.
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I've also noticed further up the log I have these errors
ad7: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED>
ad7: FAILURE - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORED>

richardpl: I tried the dd command as follows
# dd if=/dev/ad7 of=ad7.dd
which gave me nothing:
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 0.000040 secs (0 bytes/sec)

I don't have any partition information, so the only device I have in the /dev dir for ad7 is /dev/ad7.
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I think things are more serious. Looks more like controller failure to me. If you need the data, it is going to be a PCB swap at least.
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