Comment 30 for bug 430333

I have the exact same Patriot SSD in my AsusEEE 900, and have basically the exact same corruption issues.

I'm running vanilla Ubuntu 9.10 right now, and the system will last for about a month before something breaks. Before I had Kubuntu 9.04, and never had a problem. I updated to 9.10 and the system ran fine for about a month, then gave me the grub error. After dicking around trying to fix it, I just reinstalled straight Ubuntu 9.10 on an ext4 partition, using default settings. System worked fine for about two-three months, then had the exact same corruption. Reinstalled with the newest Ubuntu 9.10 iso, and a month later, it's broken again. Except this time I can't even access the drive from a live CD.

I'm on the live CD right now. I can't run a FSCK, because it reports:
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e2fsck 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/sda1
Could this be a zero-length partition?
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GParted reports this: http://i50.tinypic.com/10omkc0.jpg
Palimpsest Disk Utility reports this: http://i50.tinypic.com/dzugli.jpg
Palimpsest Disk Utility SMART reports this: http://i50.tinypic.com/2vklpia.jpg

(Ignore the attachment, this is my first time using the bugs page.)