filesystem corruption problem

[chris]

Hi all,

I installed FC4 on a dual processor PIII server I have running.  The box 
is running an NFS server, DHCP server, and NAMED (among others).  I do 
have a couple of other Linux installations on other partitions, but the 
system basically runs 24x7. 

My problems started soon after I installed FC4 (Had Mandrake 10 
installed and running without issue for about a year before moving to 
FC4).  After about 2 weeks of running core 4 the  /dev/hda9 partition 
(/home) on my hard drive became corrupted (fsck could not fix it 
automatically).  The drive is automounted from other systems in the 
network (rw).  I fixed the corruption manually with fsck, but, I am now 
seeing that the root partition '/' is now corrupted, along with 
/dev/hda9 (/home) again.  This system is about 7 years old now, and does 
have a $59.00 special IDE (WD) Hard drive, but I have not seen any 
problems with any of the hardware until I did my recent upgrade to FC4.  
I looked in /var/log/messages and have not found any hardware problems 
(No errors at all logged).

I saw a couple of posts about corruption problems with USB backup 
restores, but nothing related to a fresh/new install. I'm looking for 
ideas on how to verify this is a hardware problem before I do anything, 
I don't know what to look for without any errors existing in the logs.

thanks,
chris