HDIO_Drive_CMD failed: input/output error

[Nonsense]

Every now and then my Ubuntu freezes and then gives me a black screen with the following message:

/dev/sda1:
Setting Advanced Power Management level disabled
HDIO_Drive_CMD failed: input/output error

I looked around the forum a bit and some suggest

hdparm -b 255

but that just gives me the same message as when the desktop crashes:

/dev/sda1:
Setting Advanced Power Management level disabled
HDIO_Drive_CMD failed: input/output error

Suggestions?

[panfist]

I have the same problem.

[Nonsense]

It turns out that my problem was due to a faulty ram.
I pulled out the bad memory and my problems are gone.

Run memtest that comes with the Live CD and check yours.

[gongjijiao]

you can set
hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda1
to turn off the advanced power management.