-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sounds to me like either the drive, or the IDE channel on your motherboard is going bad, assuming that's how the drive is connected. Just my 2 cents worth. Greg On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 08:23:36PM -0230, Doug Lawlor wrote: > Hello list, I just used parted 1.6 to make a new partition on my system with > an ext3 file system and get the following error when trying to write files > to it. > Example: > Touch test.txt > Touch: cannot touch `test.txt':Input/output error > > I did an fsck on the file system which fixed endless amounts of errors but > fsck is restarting and finding errors seemingly in the same locations on the > partition and cannot fix them. Has anyone had this happen before. I should > note the new partition is on the same disk containing my operating system > partition if that makes a difference. > > Doug > > > Doug Lawlor, > Email: dlawlor at warp.nfld.net > Skype: dlawlor1971 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > !DSPAM:42ec0534118121418648902! > > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC7BAC7s9z/XlyUyARAgnhAJ0bfBkT+/1ZW27/ntnYuuzb/wTrMwCeNj9I HkbdU41zeNiph9p/8eqcx/8= =LvxI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----