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The SATA drives are all on the 4 port controller, if I remember correctly. The Marvell one deals with my IDE DVD/CD-ROM drives and is a non-issue. I'll try the kernel upgrade and see if that fixes the issue. If it doesn't, I'll have to stop using Linux until I find a solution. :(

Output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 1 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 5 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 6 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller 00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT200 [GTX260-216] (rev a1) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1e Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev b0) 03:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6121 SATA II Controller (rev b2) 05:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 70) I was going to run SpinRite on the drive but hadn't yet. I'll run badblocks tomorrow.

I just built a new system and have been using Mandriva (2009.1 Spring 64-bit) on it for about two or three months. About a month ago I started getting I/O errors across the board. I immediately rebooted into Windows and checked the drive. No problems with it and I spent the next week in Windows because I didn't have the time to go back and diagnose the issue in Linux. It seems to happen over time or whenever I'm doing intense downloading with BitTorrent. I can't shut down the system from within KDE when they happen and reboots result in having to run fsck manually (Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan were found). I can't use the system when the I/O errors start appearing, either. I have no problems whatsoever with the drives in Windows and checking the system logs within Windows reveal no errors. Here's what I'm seeing within the logs in Linux: Oct 5 13:36:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Oct 5 13:36:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 Oct 5 13:36:58 localhost klogd: res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) Oct 5 13:36:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: status: { DRDY } Oct 5 13:36:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:36:58 localhost klogd: ata2.01: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:04 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Oct 5 13:37:08 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SRST failed (errno=-16) Oct 5 13:37:08 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Oct 5 13:37:08 localhost klogd: ata2.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) Oct 5 13:37:08 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link online but device misclassified, retrying Oct 5 13:37:08 localhost klogd: ata2.00: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:08 localhost klogd: ata2.01: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:14 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Oct 5 13:37:18 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SRST failed (errno=-16) Oct 5 13:37:18 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Oct 5 13:37:18 localhost klogd: ata2.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) Oct 5 13:37:18 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link online but device misclassified, retrying Oct 5 13:37:18 localhost klogd: ata2.00: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:18 localhost klogd: ata2.01: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:24 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Oct 5 13:37:30 localhost klogd: npviewer.bin[13854]: segfault at f6a45470 ip 00000000f6a45470 sp 00000000e9e1803c error 14 Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SRST failed (errno=-16) Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link online but device misclassified, retrying Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.00: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.01: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.00: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.01: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SRST failed (errno=-16) Oct 5 13:37:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) Oct 5 13:37:58 localhost klogd: ata2.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) Oct 5 13:37:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link online but device misclassified, device detection might fail Oct 5 13:37:59 localhost klogd: ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-2) Oct 5 13:38:03 localhost klogd: ata2.00: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:38:03 localhost klogd: ata2.01: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: ata2.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: ata2: EH complete Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 17247991 Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: Aborting journal on device sdb1:8. Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: ext4_abort called. Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: Remounting filesystem read-only Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: journal commit I/O error Here's my fstab: # Entry for /dev/sda5 : UUID=b4d5c598-4cb1-4555-be9d-869cf0da9a78 / ext4 relatime 1 1 # Entry for /dev/sdb1 : UUID=28e1570a-c15a-4cc3-ace4-60271d9299af /home ext4 relatime 1 2 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sda1 : UUID=3ED03D08D03CC843 /mnt/win_c ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sdb5 : UUID=94F00622F0060B66 /mnt/win_c2 ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sdc1 : UUID=1234-5678 /mnt/win_c3 vfat umask=000,iocharset=utf8 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sda6 : UUID=b0ca92e5-68d6-4330-9fa0-f1668b17fe1e swap swap defaults 0 0 Any ideas on how to stop this from occurring?

Yes. I've not had a lot of time to work on the computer lately but I'm finally back in Linux (I'm forced into Windows because of this). I have no problems whatsoever in Windows with accessing/writing to any of my drives. My fstab: # Entry for /dev/sda5 : UUID=b4d5c598-4cb1-4555-be9d-869cf0da9a78 / ext4 relatime 1 1 # Entry for /dev/sdb1 : UUID=28e1570a-c15a-4cc3-ace4-60271d9299af /home ext4 relatime 1 2 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sda1 : UUID=3ED03D08D03CC843 /mnt/win_c ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sdb5 : UUID=94F00622F0060B66 /mnt/win_c2 ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sdc1 : UUID=1234-5678 /mnt/win_c3 vfat umask=000,iocharset=utf8 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sda6 : UUID=b0ca92e5-68d6-4330-9fa0-f1668b17fe1e swap swap defaults 0 0

I just built a new system and have been using Mandriva (2009.1 Spring 64-bit) on it for about a month. About a week ago I started getting I/O errors across the board. I immediately rebooted into Windows and checked the drive. No problems with it and I spent the next week in Windows because I didn't have the time to go back and diagnose the issue in Linux. I rebooted last night and after having to run fsck manually (Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan were found) everything was appearing to work normally until now: Oct 5 13:36:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Oct 5 13:36:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 Oct 5 13:36:58 localhost klogd: res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) Oct 5 13:36:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: status: { DRDY } Oct 5 13:36:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:36:58 localhost klogd: ata2.01: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:04 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Oct 5 13:37:08 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SRST failed (errno=-16) Oct 5 13:37:08 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Oct 5 13:37:08 localhost klogd: ata2.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) Oct 5 13:37:08 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link online but device misclassified, retrying Oct 5 13:37:08 localhost klogd: ata2.00: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:08 localhost klogd: ata2.01: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:14 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Oct 5 13:37:18 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SRST failed (errno=-16) Oct 5 13:37:18 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Oct 5 13:37:18 localhost klogd: ata2.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) Oct 5 13:37:18 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link online but device misclassified, retrying Oct 5 13:37:18 localhost klogd: ata2.00: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:18 localhost klogd: ata2.01: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:24 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Oct 5 13:37:30 localhost klogd: npviewer.bin[13854]: segfault at f6a45470 ip 00000000f6a45470 sp 00000000e9e1803c error 14 Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SRST failed (errno=-16) Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link online but device misclassified, retrying Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.00: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.01: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.00: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.01: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SRST failed (errno=-16) Oct 5 13:37:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) Oct 5 13:37:58 localhost klogd: ata2.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) Oct 5 13:37:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link online but device misclassified, device detection might fail Oct 5 13:37:59 localhost klogd: ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-2) Oct 5 13:38:03 localhost klogd: ata2.00: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:38:03 localhost klogd: ata2.01: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: ata2.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: ata2: EH complete Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 17247991 Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: Aborting journal on device sdb1:8. Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: ext4_abort called. Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: Remounting filesystem read-only Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: journal commit I/O error This didn't appear until I started downloading a few large files through a torrent. This also started happening last time that I was using BitTorrent.

My Windows partition is FAT32 and accessable. I was looking for a program that would be able to do incremental and differential backups of everything... If I use K3B, I'll have to remember what files are new and what ones have changed over time.

I've taken a look at the backup system in the MCC - it doesn't allow me to back up areas of my Windows partition as well. I'm not interested in backing up the operating system, only my personal files.

I'm looking for a piece of software that will let me backup both my Linux and Windows partitions (dual boot, they're both on the same hard drive) onto DVDs, preferrably with some system to do incremential and differential backups on a regular basis that's easy to use. I've been looking around for a little while and not really finding anything. Anyone have any suggestions?

A full reboot was all that was required after that. hald is now running and the camera mounts correctly and this time, it actually offers to pull the pictures off of the camera for me (perhaps a new feature of KDE 3.5.3?) Thanks for everyone's suggestions and help.

Well, I reverted back to the original HAL sources from Mandriva. http://www.linuxfordummies.org/index.php?topic=509.0 After a reboot, this did not fix the problem. gnome-volume-manager wants the hald service to be running. In the Mandriva Control Center, I cannot find this service. How would I go about installing/running said service? This also seems to tie in with dbus, like I mentioned above, so I pulled all the dbus RPMs off of the system, in much the same manner that the SoS creator suggested the HAL RPMs be removed in the above thread. Whatever wasn't covered by the original Mandriva RPMs was reinstalled from SoS (I'm not sure if the new versions of KDE require those SoS dbus RPMs that aren't distributed from Mandriva). The good news in all of this is that in the middle of that installation process of the Mandriva dbus RPMs, KDE popped up with that message when I inserted the installation CD, telling me a new medium was detected and asked me what to do with it. This is good, that's what used to happen before, with new CDs, with my camera... Problem is, my camera still doesn't get that dialog. I do not know if a reboot will solve that problem, or if it's this missing hald process that gnome-volume-manager keeps requesting. Running gnome-volume-manager from the command line produces: libhal.c 767 : org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceDoesNotExist raised "Service "org.freedesktop.Hal" does not exist" ** (gnome-volume-manager:5948): WARNING **: manager.c/978: seems that HAL is not running Mandriva Control Center lists haldaemon as running, but not hald. :wacko:

I just upgraded to 3.5.3 today, actually. I figured if USB isn't going to work until I figure a fix, I may as well start tinkering around with something interesting, because if it all goes to crap, it'll give me a really good reason to reinstall and get my USB back. :) I did some investigating and the creator of the SoS RPMs said that some people have had issues with his HAL RPMs, so he had instructions on how to revert back to official Mandriva HAL RPMs without pulling everything apart. I did so, but I haven't rebooted/restarted HAL. I'll probably reboot soon enough, just taking a break from the whole KDE bit and trying to figure out a brand new (but only minorly irritating) issue with xscreensaver. I'm anxiously waiting for 2007. It's getting better with every release, albeit slower (AMD Duron 1.1GHz and only 256MB RAM).

Thanks, but that wasn't the issue at all. It worked fine with Konquerer before.

If it is the SoS upgrades that have done this to my system (dbus and HAL), I have no idea how I am going to revert this, since I can't seem to find replacement packages for all of the SoS dbus and HAL related packages that I installed in my recent upgrade. I am not the only one having problems, apparently the packages have broken VMWare on other users' systems, according to the SoS forums. I am just hoping this doesn't break anything else, because it looks like I'm stuck with these SoS RPMs until there's a fix or I find the replacement Mandriva RPMs that I can revert back to.

Well, I ran gnome-volume-manager from a shell and got this output: libhal.c 644 : Error connecting to system bus: No reply within specified time ** (gnome-volume-manager:6741): WARNING **: manager.c/960: failed to initialize HAL! This is unknown territory for me. Apparently others have been having similar issues, but... http://forum.mandrivaclub.com/viewtopic.php?t=49835& I, too, am using some SoS sources and I know for sure that I recently updated dbus with an SoS source (as of two days ago). I'm not sure whether or not I should downgrade, after reading that thread.

Looks like it's not installed. I'll root around on the net, see if I can grab the RPM that has it, if it's not heavy on the dependencies. I take it, though, that it's dependent on having Gnome installed?