i seem to be having some issue. i am not positive but i think it might have to do with my storage drive on my computer. the drive is a brand new (both as in just bought and new technology (relatively)) western digital 1002faex (sata 6.0 and 64 mb buffer) formatted to ext3 with gparted.

in amarok, after running a bit i could not access the music any more. i at that point, i sometimes cannot see it through dolphin either and generally cannot access it through command line as well. my kernel keeps getting a crash error saying a "dirty memory" or something like that...

Package: kernel
Latest Crash: Sun 12 Sep 2010 12:49:19 PM
Command: not_applicable
Reason: WARNING: at fs/buffer.c:1159 mark_buffer_dirty+0x30/0x8b()
Comment:
Bug Reports: Kernel oops report was uploaded

when i was transferring my music to the drive, the kernel kept crashing as well...moving over 10 gigs at a time through dolphin but it also did it at lower amounts as well. would there be compatibility issues?

thanks

When you say your "storage drive" do you mean it's purely for media store? Or it's also your / partition? In either case, have you tried running fsck on it to check for errors? If your kernel is crashing with memory errors, it could be a hardware problem with your RAM - try putting memtestx86 on a live CD and check your memory for errors.

thanks...i have it figured out i think. all sata 6 gb/s are supposed to be backward compatible by default but some are not. while they can run on a sata 3 gb/s board or might be able to run on a sata 1.5 gb/s board, you have to change a pin setting in order for some to work.

the original design as i have found was supposed to be nothing needed to be changed, however they are not that way, at least in the case of the wd1002faex.

thanks all...