Ok, I am a newbie on Linux, so I aint good at solving issues like this. But I had external Harddrive of the brand Western Digital "Elements" with 500Gb of space. I had almost a full drive, and my normal VISTA computer had to go to repaire. That disk has been working with no problem at all. But now, when i use it in Linux, it sometimes vanished. It also made Nautilus freeze everytime i wanted to see what I had in the catalogs. And those things led to a complete freeze of the whole Ubuntu Gutsu 7.10 on PS3 Freeze and I had to reboot it the wrong way. This action made the harddrive to crash.

I now have a new harddrive, with the same space 500Gb, but this time its Maxtor (Seagate drive built-in). And allready, the same symptoms is emerging. Whats wrong? Why do i get all this problems. All linux people things ints Hardware problems, but it can't be. Not when the same things happens twice with different brands.

I might be able to save the first drive. But can't afford it twice. Those datasavings companies take a lot of money to fix problems like this.

See this on http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#ioerror

In the past this was very popular with Seagate drives but recently Western Digital is catching up in bad quality. Linux kernel 2.6.24 should have fixed these problams.

Anyway if you find those "Device not ready" or similar errors in your logs then it's a pure Ubuntu kernel problem, completely unrelated to NTFS-3G.

so, u mean the problem is that my two harddrive like to get to bed, and hard to wake up... *lol*

So, hey, as I said before. Im a newbie. Would probably be able to fix it if it was xp, or windows. But I dont understand half of that information u just linked too. Wouldnt it be enough to ask, if u told me, how to check wich kernel version I got, and how to download the new version?
Or Fix the problem.... If I allready got this kernel version.

Please ask Ubuntu who distributes the buggy Linux kernel. They are at http://www.ubuntu.com

If you don't tell them then they will never fix it.

Good luck! Szaka