<div dir="ltr">I'm running F8. Yesterday the system froze. Now when I boot half the time I get "Booting Fedora 2.6.25.11-60.fc8 root (hd0,1) Error 5" Partition table invalid or corrupt" The other half of the time when I boot up I'm getting lots of errors. Here are ones I see when the system boots Sep 11 08:41:34 localhost kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x12 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x780401 action 0x2 Sep 11 08:41:34 localhost kernel: ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x4 Sep 11 08:41:34 localhost kernel: ata3: SError: { RecovData Proto 10B8B Dispar BadCRC Handshk } Sep 11 08:41:34 localhost kernel: ata3.00: cmd 25/00:08:b8:03:ec/00:00:11:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in Sep 11 08:41:34 localhost kernel: res 51/84:00:bf:03:ec/84:00:11:00:00/e0 Emask 0x12 (ATA bus error) Sep 11 08:41:34 localhost kernel: ata3.00: status: { DRDY ERR } Sep 11 08:41:34 localhost kernel: ata3.00: error: { ICRC ABRT } Sep 11 08:41:34 localhost kernel: ata3: soft resetting link Sep 11 08:41:34 localhost kernel: ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) Sep 11 08:41:34 localhost kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33 Sep 11 08:41:34 localhost kernel: ata3: EH complete Sep 11 08:41:34 localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors (160042 MB) Sep 11 08:41:34 localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off Sep 11 08:41:34 localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA My question is does this appear to be a HW or SW problem? Can anyone interpret the ata errors and the partition table error for me. Thanks, /Bob Cahn </div>