On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:03:28PM +0100, Jaime Silvela wrote: > I recently installed Debian 2.2 on my computer after having used Debian > 2.0 for a year and a half. My computer had been complaining often about > corrupted disk sectors under Debian 2.0, and I figured perhaps my HD was > faulty or Debian 2.2 had a patch to fix the problem. After installing Debian > 2.2 the problem persisted, even sometimes fsck would at bootup find > irrecoverable HD errors and ask me to give root password for maintenence. So > I bought a new 3.2 GB IDE disk, and again the same. I had been using a 1.6 > IDE disk.
Probably something with your controller or a faulty BIOS. You should check the HD in an other system. Phil