My other Mageia9 machine has stopped working after displaying a large
number of red error messages beginning ata1.00......
I ran fsck /dev/sda9 which offered to correct several block counts and
inode counts and then followed with a bunch of exception/irq_stat/failed command messages. Followed by 10 "Buffer I/O error on dev sda9..."
messages, fsck then gave up with a "Error writing file system info: Input/output error"
My question: Is this a hardware problem in the SATA interface or is it a faulty disk? I find it hard to believe it's a disk problem because it
was new at the end of December 2025, but the motherboard itself was new
at the end of August 2025. (different suppliers - which one do I sue?)
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Grimble
Machine 'Haydn' running Plasma 5.27.10 on 6.6.120-desktop-1.mga9 kernel.
Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64


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On Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:45:38 +0000, Grimble wrote:

My other Mageia9 machine has stopped working after displaying a large
number of red error messages beginning ata1.00......
I ran fsck /dev/sda9 which offered to correct several block counts and
inode counts and then followed with a bunch of exception/irq_stat/failed command messages. Followed by 10 "Buffer I/O error on dev sda9..."
messages, fsck then gave up with a "Error writing file system info: Input/output error"
My question: Is this a hardware problem in the SATA interface or is it a faulty disk? I find it hard to believe it's a disk problem because it
was new at the end of December 2025, but the motherboard itself was new
at the end of August 2025. (different suppliers - which one do I sue?)

What is on the sda9 partition ?

If it is your root partition, do you have another partition formerly
the root partition ?

If possible, I think I would unmount /dev/sda9 and see if the problem
goes away.

Cheers!

jim b.



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On Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:45:38 -0400, Grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

My other Mageia9 machine has stopped working after displaying a large
number of red error messages beginning ata1.00......
I ran fsck /dev/sda9 which offered to correct several block counts and
inode counts and then followed with a bunch of exception/irq_stat/failed command messages. Followed by 10 "Buffer I/O error on dev sda9..."
messages, fsck then gave up with a "Error writing file system info: Input/output error"
My question: Is this a hardware problem in the SATA interface or is it a faulty disk? I find it hard to believe it's a disk problem because it
was new at the end of December 2025, but the motherboard itself was new
at the end of August 2025. (different suppliers - which one do I sue?)

If you can, copy anything you want to keep from that hard drive somewhere else.

Remove the hard drive and hook it up to another computer. Run a destructive test to see how
many bad sectors there are. If the drives checks out clean it's either the sata controller in the
first computer or a bad sata cable.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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On 14/03/2026 16:18, David W. Hodgins wrote:

On Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:45:38 -0400, Grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

skip

If you can, copy anything you want to keep from that hard drive
somewhere else.

Remove the hard drive and hook it up to another computer. Run a
destructive test to see how
many bad sectors there are. If the drives checks out clean it's either
the sata controller in the
first computer or a bad sata cable.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

Thanks Dave. It must have been a dodgy sata cable. I opened up the case
to check connections, replaced the sata cable then used Knoppix to copy
some other partitions (SystemRescue kept on freezing after a few
minutes). While there, I ran fsck on /dev/sda9 which is the root
partition. No problems, so I exited Knoppix, started up Mageia and
everything seems normal.
Phew!
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Grimble
Machine 'Haydn' running Plasma 5.27.10 on 6.6.120-desktop-1.mga9 kernel.
Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64

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