FC3 + EXT3 Journal problems on thinkpad

[Jon Hill]

Hi

I have run Core 1 and Core 2 on my thinkpad 600x without any major problems 
but have run into problems with Core 3.
I have an IBM Thinkpad 600x with a 20gig drive.

My first installation ran ok for about a day until I the EXT3 journal got 
corrupted and the file system was re-mounted read-only. I couldn't get the 
machine to reboot, just got a kernel panic message. I reinstalled and 
updated all packages including the kernel. This time the installation lasted 
a few days longer until just now when I got messages that mentioned 'trying 
to write past end of device', 'ext3 journal aborted'. I can't paste the 
exact messages in until I can remount the drive and recover some logs.

I haven't given anyone anything much to go on here, but maybe someone could 
help point me in the right direction? Maybe Core 3 is just not going to work 
on this thinkpad or maybe it could be faulty hardware?

regards,

Jon