LINUX - My NTFS Partition keeps becoming "unusable" on Ubuntu, Any Ideas?

I just purchased a new 2TB Drive External Seagate, My main system uses both Windows and Ubuntu So I am pretty much stuck with keeping my drive as NTFS. I have done this without any problems before but since I got this new drive I have been having issues. When I first load up Ubuntu the drive mounts and runs fine, after an unspecified amount of time i start getting Input/Output errors when accessing the drive. When I goto the Disk Utility I get a message stating the drive is "Unknown or Unused", If I disconnect and reconnect the drive or reboot everything is fine again.

There's no errors coming up with S.M.A.R.T and it seems to work fine while under windows.

Any thoughts?

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Question by (6/16/2010 12:45:03 AM)

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I have found the problem and hopefully a solution

http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/FAQ/DealWithAutoSpinDownOnSeagateFreeAgent

This will be my last Seagate Drive I purchase.

Update:

It has been 12 hours, after installing sdparm and running the command recommended in the link, and I have not lost connection to the drive or experienced the errors I was getting previously here is what I did

apt-get update
apt-get install sdparm
sdparm --clear STANDBY -6 /dev/sd[YOUR_DEVICE]

using:

  • Ubuntu: Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
  • Kernel: 2.6.31-22-generic
  • Fully updated.

Everything looks good now.

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