Regarding my previous report of splitting the 36 gigabyte drive into two partititions. After populating the drive with approx 1.5 gigabytes of data, the corruption reappeared. This time fsck reported a "short block read" and posted a question whether the partition was clear. This error occured in both the 31 gigabyte partition and the 4.x gigabyte on the drive
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7506 ***