On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 11:41:51PM -0600, Lav Aneja wrote: > I am resending this message again as after getting various suggestions, What about *reading* them ???? Your drive is broken, it is dying. Get it replaced if under warranty, buy another one otherwise. It is not ext3 related. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Network http://redhat.com/products/network/ veillard@redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/