Forum:Input/Output error. Immutable bit?

Hi great site

I wonder if you can help me.

I have a Screenplay Pro HD on to which I have attempted to copy a music directory from M$ XP that had the read only attribute set. This failed with a write error.

Now, the connected XP machine can not see the directory on the SPP but claims that a directory of that name exists.

I telnet'd to the SPP, cd'd to the parent directrory and:

/usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/hdd/volumes/HDD1/Music/Contemporary # ls Jimi* ls: Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced: Input/output error /usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/hdd/volumes/HDD1/Music/Contemporary # rm Jimi* rm: unable to stat `Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced': Input/output error /usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/hdd/volumes/HDD1/Music/Contemporary # rmdir Jimi* rmdir: `Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced': Not a directory /usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/hdd/volumes/HDD1/Music/Contemporary # mv Jimi* Jumi* mv: unable to rename `Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced': Operation not permitted

I can not find chattr or chfalgs (assuming the immutable bit is the issue).

Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask. Craslett 13:02, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * NTFS driver on linux is not good and can easily get corrupted. To fix the problem you're having, run the maintenance suggestions.  That has taken care of it for me every single time.  It would be better if the SPP used ext3 for the file system (if you want to go to the trouble of reformatting it as ext3, it will work but then Windows won't see your ext3 filesystem via USB, only via network).  I'm waiting on two 1 TB drives before I reformat mine. --JCoug 14:50, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Many thanks I'll give it a go ... and 10 minutes later a perfect solution! Much gratitude. (Shame about the lack of Linux tools on the SPP).