NTFS Problem or what?

gibran · 05-25-2007, 10:42 AM

This is getting a little ridiculous. Regardless of whether my external drive is mounted using ntfs or ntfs-3g(which it is currently using) it will periodically just restart randomly. WTF is up with this?

like right now, for example, i try burning a CD from my external drive. every single time itll just restart when its halfway in between converting. ive used two different burners too.

has anyone a clue why this keeps happening? im about to switch distros or something cause i havent been able to find any clues.

monsm · 05-25-2007, 11:13 AM

You mean the PC itself is rebooting?

Do you get anything in the logs (/var/log/messages etc)?

gibran · 05-25-2007, 11:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monsm

You mean the PC itself is rebooting?

Do you get anything in the logs (/var/log/messages etc)?

Code:

May 25 10:22:47 fishy kernel: [  153.751829] scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
May 25 10:22:52 fishy kernel: [  159.233662] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ST330062 2A               3.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
May 25 10:22:52 fishy kernel: [  159.235263] SCSI device sda: 586072368 512-byte hdwr sectors (300069 MB)
May 25 10:22:52 fishy kernel: [  159.236261] sda: Write Protect is off
May 25 10:22:52 fishy kernel: [  159.237132] SCSI device sda: 586072368 512-byte hdwr sectors (300069 MB)
May 25 10:22:52 fishy kernel: [  159.238134] sda: Write Protect is off
May 25 10:22:52 fishy kernel: [  159.238144]  sda: sda1
May 25 10:22:52 fishy kernel: [  159.248001] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
May 25 10:22:52 fishy kernel: [  159.248061] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
May 25 10:26:17 fishy kernel: [  364.348206] SCSI device sda: 586072368 512-byte hdwr sectors (300069 MB)
May 25 10:26:17 fishy kernel: [  364.349515] sda: Write Protect is off
May 25 10:26:17 fishy kernel: [  364.349809]  sda: sda1
May 25 10:26:31 fishy kernel: [  378.196571] SCSI device sda: 586072368 512-byte hdwr sectors (300069 MB)
May 25 10:26:31 fishy kernel: [  378.203260] sda: Write Protect is off
May 25 10:26:31 fishy kernel: [  378.203537]  sda: sda1
May 25 10:26:57 fishy kernel: [  403.987556] SCSI device sda: 586072368 512-byte hdwr sectors (300069 MB)
May 25 10:26:57 fishy kernel: [  403.988937] sda: Write Protect is off
May 25 10:26:57 fishy kernel: [  403.989698]  sda: sda1
May 25 10:27:45 fishy kernel: [  452.532326] SCSI device sda: 586072368 512-byte hdwr sectors (300069 MB)
May 25 10:27:45 fishy kernel: [  452.536268] sda: Write Protect is off
May 25 10:27:45 fishy kernel: [  452.536487]  sda: sda1
May 25 10:28:49 fishy kernel: [  515.996139] SCSI device sda: 586072368 512-byte hdwr sectors (300069 MB)
May 25 10:28:49 fishy kernel: [  515.997140] sda: Write Protect is off
May 25 10:28:49 fishy kernel: [  515.997154]  sda: sda1
May 25 10:32:33 fishy syslogd 1.4.1#20ubuntu4: restart.

and in syslog...

Code:

May 25 10:28:36 fishy dhclient: No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
May 25 10:28:49 fishy ntfs-3g[7173]: Unmounting /dev/sda1 (SEA_DISK)
May 25 10:28:49 fishy hald: unmounted /dev/sda1 from '/media/SEA_DISK_' on behalf of uid 1000
May 25 10:28:49 fishy kernel: [  515.996139] SCSI device sda: 586072368 512-byte hdwr sectors (300069 MB)
May 25 10:28:49 fishy NetworkManager: <debug info>^I[1180106929.454847] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal udi is$
May 25 10:28:49 fishy kernel: [  515.997140] sda: Write Protect is off
May 25 10:28:49 fishy kernel: [  515.997146] sda: Mode Sense: 10 00 00 00
May 25 10:28:49 fishy kernel: [  515.997149] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
May 25 10:28:49 fishy kernel: [  515.997154]  sda: sda1
May 25 10:28:49 fishy NetworkManager: <debug info>^I[1180106929.654184] nm_hal_device_added (): New device added (hal udi is$
May 25 10:30:21 fishy ntfs-3g[7321]: Version 1.328
May 25 10:30:21 fishy ntfs-3g[7321]: Mounted /dev/sda1 (Read-Write, label "SEA_DISK", NTFS 3.1)
May 25 10:30:21 fishy ntfs-3g[7321]: Options: noatime,rw,nosuid,nodev,silent,allow_other,nonempty,fsname=/dev/sda1,blkdev,bl$
May 25 10:30:21 fishy hald: mounted /dev/sda1 on behalf of uid 1000
May 25 10:32:33 fishy syslogd 1.4.1#20ubuntu4: restart.
May 25 10:32:34 fishy kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.20-15-generic

jiml8 · 05-27-2007, 10:06 AM

I would be looking at hardware. First guess would be a power supply voltage problem. Is this external drive self-powered? If you remove the external drive, do you have any problems? Is your system on the external drive?

System crashes are a serious problem and are unlikely to be related to the distro.