In message <200410011358.i91DwQBf028790@herd.plethora.net>, Peter Seebach write
s:
>I have tried fsck_msdos, the Windows disk utilities, and even Norton
>Utilities, and they all think the partition looks fine.  If I boot XP, I can
>beat on the disk for hours on end without any problems, so I don't think it's
>failing hardware.

Nevermind.  Seebs is, as is so often the case, being stupid.  My disklabel
and the FDISK table had gotten out of sync, and the system was trying to read
past the end of the BSD partition.  Doh!

-s