Hi! Yesterday I installed Linux for the first time on an old 2.5" 7GB harddisk. Everything went fine and I really liked the Fedora distribution, but now my harddisk makes trouble. Upon booting and some other actions (mounting an usb memory stick), the harddisk makes some strange noise and the log always shows me the following errors (repeated several times in a row). Is this a hardware error or can I repair the file system somehow (how?)? Jan 6 05:48:34 localhost kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Jan 6 05:48:34 localhost kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, CHS=21281/0/57, sector=5242928 Jan 6 05:48:34 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:02 (hdc), sector 5242928 Jan 6 05:48:34 localhost kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide1(22,2)): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=327820, block=655366 Jan 6 05:48:34 localhost kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide1(22,2)) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: IO failure Jan 6 05:48:34 localhost kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1408 Jan 6 05:48:41 localhost kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Jan 6 05:48:41 localhost kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, CHS=21281/0/57, sector=5242928 Jan 6 05:48:41 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:02 (hdc), sector 5242928 Jan 6 05:48:41 localhost kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide1(22,2)): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=327820, block=655366 Jan 6 05:48:41 localhost kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide1(22,2)) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: IO failure (and so on for about ten times...) Any suggestions? Heiko