What ever is in the latest Ubuntu maverick, 2.6.35 for the kernel. The only thing that makes it not looking like it was a storage problem is this line that comes before the SATA error: ----- Feb 25 04:41:26 finfin kernel: [206290.181230] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = sdb1, blocknr = 0). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. ----- bill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html