Bug#354654: general: fat32 gets corrupted

[Cesare Leonardi <celeonar@tiscali.it>]

Juan Piñeros wrote:
> I do not find any logical explanation. No strange message in syslog, we used 
> "normal" programs (konqueror, thunderbird, oowriter) when sudenly when try to 
> save a file or read mail, an error appears just saying that the directories 
> did not exist any more.

In the past i had a similar problem: sometimes, with no appearing 
regularity, some files simply got corrupted (filesystem was ext3).
I simply couldn't understand what could be, since the hard disk seemed 
to be ok.
Until i have remembered to have played with hdparm and put an optimized 
hdparm command line in a boot script.
After i commented out that line, i hadn't no more corruption.

I don't know if this can be your case.
Regards.

Cesare.