Problem with hard drive lock out

Hey All,

I'm having a vexing problem with FC8 losing connection to one of my hard drives. I've had it drop out in a matter of a few minutes. This time it was working for several days before it quit.

I have two drives on my system. One SATA drive has the system installed on it. The other, plugged into the IDE header has data files on it. The SATA drive runs fine. The IDE drive will eventually quit working. I can cd onto the drive as long as I don't try to access something that is not already in the disk cache. When I try to access the drive I get this error:

[mlapier@mushroom mlapier]$ cd /sdb1
[mlapier@mushroom sdb1]$ cd mlapier
[mlapier@mushroom mlapier]$ cd mail
[mlapier@mushroom mail]$ cd MYDIR
[mlapier@mushroom MYDIR]$ ls
ls: reading directory .: Input/output error
[mlapier@mushroom piano]$ cd /sdb2
[mlapier@mushroom sdb2]$ cd piano
[mlapier@mushroom piano]$ ls
ls: reading directory .: Input/output error

There are two partitions mounted thus:

drwxrwxrwx 16 root users 4096 2007-12-29 12:56 sdb1
drwxrwxrwx 49 root users 4096 2008-01-06 22:48 sdb2

[mlapier@mushroom etc]$ cat fstab
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /sdb1 ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/sdb2 /sdb2 ext2 defaults 1 2
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0

[mlapier@mushroom etc]$ uname -a
Linux mushroom.patch 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 17:03:13 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I've been running Linux for many years on many boxes but I've never encountered a situation like this. The only way I've found to restore operation is a to reboot.

Anyone got any clues??

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