Rogelio wrote:
I'm having some weird issues with Helix (a Sid / Knoppix based distribution). For whatever reason, I periodically get an "input/output error" while a disk is mounted, and the only way to fix it is to umount and then mount again via ntfs-3g.Here's a more detailed list of what I've been doing. So, I mount with ntfs ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/bigusb/Once I see that ok, then I create folders and files in that mount point. After a while, however, something dies, and if I do an "ls", I'll get "input/output error", and I have toumount /dev/sdb1and if says the device is busy, then I close whatever other thing (usually LinEn or another terminal window) that might be accessing it.Once it dismounts, then I try it again with ntfs-3g.I've never had this problem on any other implementation of ntfs-3g (on Knoppix or on the Gentoo-based System Rescue CD), and I'm wondering how to best narrow down the problem.i.e.(1) quirks with ntfs-3g? (2) quirks with LinEn (Encase imaging tool)? (3) hard drive errors?In one case, I simply took out the hard drive, formatted in Windows XP (e.g. format e: /fs:ntfs /q), popped it back in, remounted, and all was ok for a while. Perhaps there is a "better" way to do this in the Debian / Linux environment?Thanks
Perhaps you can use 'sdparm' to determine what's going on? I have a problem with USB 2.0 devices on my HP laptop, with Debian, and one suggestion made was to disable STANDBY mode with sdparm.
I do not recall, nor can I find, the web page referencing this. But the problem was described as a disk that went into standby mode would not wake up correctly. The fix was to disable this mode.
I'll continue searching and see if I can find the reference, but I figured others might know about it and post quicker than I can.
-- Bob McGowan
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