Hi, On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:25:08AM +0000, Matthew Dickinson wrote: > more error messages are present: it's just a small selection... > > Dec 30 15:17:34 jaguar kernel: hda: write_intr error1: nr_sectors=1, > stat=0x70 > Dec 30 15:17:34 jaguar kernel: hda: write_intr: status=0x70 { DriveReady > DeviceFault SeekComplete } OK. You're getting device fault error messages back from the IDE controller, and the filesystem is showing up bad data. > > > i'm suspicious i have a hard disk error (it's a new laptop that's less > > > than a month old) and i wouldn't mind proof! Looks that way to me, I'm afraid. Cheers, Stephen