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gauthma

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I/O error when recording cd

OK I know how that sounds... but bear with me. When trying (twice) to create an audio cd (with K3b), the same thing happened: I/O wait grew steadily bigger, until the system became completely unresponsive, and had to be hard-rebooted. In console, messages where being thrown saying Bad I/O on device sda. /var/log/errors.log shows:

May 28 22:02:39 localhost kernel: [ 8736.921300] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
May 28 22:02:39 localhost kernel: [ 8736.921303] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
May 28 22:02:39 localhost kernel: [ 8736.925800] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
May 28 22:02:39 localhost kernel: [ 8736.925803] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
May 28 22:02:39 localhost kernel: [ 8736.930926] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
May 28 22:02:39 localhost kernel: [ 8736.930930] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
May 28 22:07:22 localhost kernel: [ 9020.339181] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 frozen
May 28 22:07:22 localhost kernel: [ 9020.339198] ata1.01: cmd a0/01:00:00:30:09/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 dma 2352 in
May 28 22:07:22 localhost kernel: [ 9020.339199]          res 40/00:02:00:1c:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
May 28 22:07:22 localhost kernel: [ 9020.339201] ata1.01: status: { DRDY }
May 28 22:22:18 localhost kernel: [   79.779896] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08
May 28 22:22:19 localhost /usr/sbin/crond[845]: (CRON) INFO (Syslog will be used instead of sendmail.): No such file or directory

(I'm not sure this indicates anything wrong, but it's the only thing that seemed related to the problem at hand...)

Does this make any sense? Could it be related to the update udev/systemd is currently undergoing?