Input/output Error while writing to a partition

[Gregory Nowak]

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Sounds to me like either the drive, or the IDE channel on your
motherboard is going bad, assuming that's how the drive is
connected. Just my 2 cents worth.

Greg


On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 08:23:36PM -0230, Doug Lawlor wrote:
> Hello list, I just used parted 1.6 to make a new partition on my system with
> an ext3 file system and get the following error when trying to write files
> to it.
> Example:
> Touch test.txt
> Touch: cannot touch `test.txt':Input/output error
> 
>  I did an fsck on the file system which fixed endless amounts of errors but
> fsck is restarting and finding errors seemingly in the same locations on the
> partition and cannot fix them. Has anyone had this happen before. I should
> note the new partition is on the same disk containing my operating system
> partition if that makes a difference. 
> 
> Doug
> 
> 
> Doug Lawlor, 
> Email: dlawlor at warp.nfld.net
> Skype: dlawlor1971 
> 
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