I/O Error suddenly

[Spendoza]

Had a power failure, booted back up, downloaded a torrent successfully (HP Lovecraft, could that be connected? Is this an extension of the eldritch realms of horror? ).
I then got a few Brooklyn Nine-Nines, (full season and a few individuals) it got up to ~20% and now I'm getting I/O Errors on every torrent, even torrents that were active/in progress a few days ago.
I cannot figure this out at all.
It tells me "I/O Error has occured on [torrent path] Error: Input/output error"
Over 100gb free space on the HDD and it appears to be fully functional.
What logs/info is needed to assist diagnosis?

Running Linux Mint 17.1 and latest linux build of qbit. Also, I'm a *bit* of a linux noob, so be gentle.
Thank you for your Holiday assistance, folks! Fortunately Exodus is still working fine and I have a few days off to muck about.

[Peter]

Do a force check on your torrents.
Can never hurt.

Right click, and then "Force recheck".

You could also check the Log.
View (on top) -> Log -> Show.
And see if anything comes up when the IO error happens.

[Spendoza]

Still gets I/O error, and its every torrent
Reason: [torrent name] file ([file path) error: Input/Output Error

I also notice all kinds of IP addresses being blocked. What does that mean and how can I fix it?

[Peter]

1) Do you have any IP block filter enabled/in-place?

2) Have you checked your hard drive if it's working indeed correctly?
https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/An ... g_Smartctl
https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/mon ... on-ubuntu/

3) Where do you download to? Local hard drive in your computer?

4) Do you have your permissions set correctly in your download folder?
Try this command: sudo chown -R username /home/username
Of course, replace "username", with your username.
This will not harm anything, just look up the command.


Last but not least, public torrents have plenty of "junk peers".
People with bad connection, bad clients, or fake clients.
You will receive plenty of useless data.

That's why the client automatically blocks the fake/trash ones.
BUT, Input/Output error should not happen.