Everything works great except mounting my NTFS partitions on SATA - is this a known problem? is there a fix?

knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]$ mount /mnt/hde1
/dev/hde1: Input/output error
mount: /dev/hde1: can't read superblock

Hardware:
Sil3112 sata controller
2x WD1600JD hard drives