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naxxtor

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Registered: 2009-06-02

Posts: 1

NTFS partition being weird - or maybe my disk is failing?

So, just got arch installed   Coming from debian background, all seems very shiny and slick in comparison. 

Anyway, I've got a HDD with a big fat NTFS partition on it (which I've been unable to migrate from).  I keep having issues accessing it and the following pops up in my /var/log/messages.log

Jun  2 01:08:54 beckett ntfs-3g[1548]: ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error
Jun  2 01:08:54 beckett ntfs-3g[1548]: ntfs_attr_pread error reading '/Some/File/I/Want/To/Access' at offset 585728: 4096 <> -1: Input/output error
Jun  2 01:08:54 beckett kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
Jun  2 01:08:54 beckett kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code
Jun  2 01:08:54 beckett kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
Jun  2 01:08:54 beckett kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : 0x3 [current] [descriptor]
Jun  2 01:08:54 beckett kernel: Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
Jun  2 01:08:54 beckett kernel: 72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 
Jun  2 01:08:54 beckett kernel: 13 c9 4e bf 
Jun  2 01:08:54 beckett kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x4
Jun  2 01:08:54 beckett kernel: ata2: EH complete

Is this an indication that the drive is dying?  Or is there a possibility that ntfs-3g needs tweaking?

Thanks