I just installed a brand new 200GB Samsung IDE harddrive. I wanted to share it between windows (when using photoshop) and Linux (Mandriva 2006). I dont usually use windows, but it seems to be working fine there...

But in Linux, I get I/O errors, IO Failures. The Xsystem?? Xwindows?? is freezing on me and I have to reset the system. If i am able to reset the system before it totally locks up, the are lots of failures on the shutdown. The graphical system, IO errors. I formatted it with 50GB FAT32 and the rest EXT3-fs. Both are mount fine in linux.

Not an expert in Linux, can usually figure things out. But this I dont know.

Very often this can be due to bad or loose cabling. It could also be a bad sector that only affects your linux installation.

So, what should i do?? I checked the cables - not the problem. Use partition magic (or similar) to scan the disk for errors?

Well....this time on shutdown, i got this:

Is this bad news??? The drive is only a day old....I have only just formatted it, but there were some errors in linux report IO failures. If i run FSCk on it, no errors show up.

Any Ideas??

Thanks,
JungMin

Ok, I think i can access data on it without problems... accessing the drive over the network and playing mp3´s off of it isnt a problem either. If I try and write data to it, this is where the problem starts. It will write about 50Mb to the disk and then stall, and then the system will start to freeze....

I just installed SUSE 10.0 and it seems to be working fine. I have only tested the harddrive by copy 1GB to and from it, but there havent been any errors as there were in Mandriva 2006.

Any ideas?? Hardware conflict??? I still prefer to use Mandrake....but if it means my harddrive wont work with it, maybe its time to switch???

JungMin