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...two primary partitions on the Seagate, /dev/sde1 and /dev/sde2 (roughly half the drive each). Then I used mkfs.ext3 on both to create ext3 filesystems on those partitions. My fstab entries look like so: /dev/sde1 /mnt/seagate1 ext3 rw,user,noexec 0 0 /dev/sde2 /mnt/seagate2 ext3 rw,user,noexec 0 0 I copied some data onto /dev/sde1 and went to bed. This morning, I found a clump of kernel messages on the console (lightly edited from /var/log/messages): kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 492896319 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sde1, lo...