This morning, on the train to TAFE, I fired up my Eee 901, resuming from standby. I was greeted by some pretty morbid messages in my tty:
[ 1589.499104] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
[ 1589.499113] ata2.00: BMDMA stat 0x4
[ 1589.499125] ata2.00: cmd c8/00:20:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 16384 in
[ 1589.499128] res 51/84:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
[ 1589.499134] ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[ 1589.499139] ata2.00: error: { ICRC ABRT }
[ 1589.499180] ata2: soft resetting link
[ 1589.685741] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/66
[ 1589.692501] ata2.01: configured for UDMA/66
[ 1589.692524] ata2: EH complete
And the OS promptly crashed. I rebooted, and GRUB told me that it “Could not load operating system”. Great.
I did an fsck, and I saw the most number of errors I’ve seen in my life, seconded only by the time I mounted my Linux drive in Windows using the Ext2 IFS driver, and Windows crashed.
fsck found lots of orphaned files. My /lost+found directory was 2.5GB in size. /etc was only 8.0K in size. It didn’t boot.
So, I tried to reinstall by using my trusty Ubuntu 9.04 on my USB flash drive. I repartitioned /dev/sda, but the Ubuntu installer subsequently bombed out, complaining it couldn’t mount the drive.
I’m typing this from my live USB. Luckily Ubuntu 9.04 comes with OpenOffice.org 3.0, and I’ve been able to copy my fonts from my second SSD, which was unharmed, so I can work on my assignments.
I fear the SSD is stuffed.
