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    From Grimble@2:250/1 to All on Sat Mar 14 13:45:38 2026
    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?)
    --
    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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  • From Jim@2:250/1 to All on Sat Mar 14 14:05:46 2026
    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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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Sat Mar 14 16:18:18 2026
    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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  • From Grimble@2:250/1 to All on Mon Mar 16 15:02:24 2026
    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:

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    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!
    --
    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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