Hi, On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 01:12:14PM +0000, Ian Leonard wrote: > I apolgise because this was a complete red herring. The app was > behaving badly but the source of the corruption was due to > the use of a 160Gb Maxtor disk. Ouch. OK, thanks for following this up. >> However, FYI, the problem still exists. If you write constantly > to a partition (in this case I just wrote to the partition without > a filesystem), it will reach about 137GB (from memory), wrap > and destroy the first partition. Nasty, but at least it's not my problem. Rather, not my problem until my 160GB Maxtor disk arrives tomorrow. :-) Out of interest, what IDE controller were you using? Cheers, Stephen