More hard disk woes (repeat)

(resent as smail configuration was dodgy - apologies if it appears twice) I have a system with a WD 2GB IDE drive that has started acting flaky - when I tried to upgrade from bo I got a thoroughly corrupted filesystem (files and directories becoming block special files that could not be deleted, l

More hard disk woes

I have a system with a WD 2GB IDE drive that has started acting flaky - when I tried to upgrade from bo I got a thoroughly corrupted filesystem (files and directories becoming block special files that could not be deleted, lots of filesystem errors), so I re-installed hamm from scratch with a re-fo