Cannot use fourth IDE HDD with FC3 ?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 14:34:26 +0700,
  Amrit Angsusingh <amritangs at gmail.com> wrote:
> I do the mkfs again and here is the result of mkfs
> -------------------------------------------
> 
> Writing inode tables: done
> ext2fs_mkdir: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read
> while creating root dir

You might want to check the cables to make sure they are seated properly.
Also you might be able to use smartctl to check for problems with the
disk.