Hi,

   FYI, Running 2.6.15-rc5 on a Dell Inspiron 700m during a kernel 
compile as well as other heavy disk access I saw (syslog & .config 
attached).  Don't know if it is reproducible:

Dec 19 06:51:17 localhost kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
Dec 19 06:51:29 localhost kernel: hda: DMA timeout error
Dec 19 06:51:29 localhost kernel: hda: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 { 
Busy }
Dec 19 06:51:29 localhost kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Dec 19 06:51:29 localhost kernel: hda: DMA disabled
Dec 19 06:51:29 localhost kernel: ide0: reset: success
Dec 19 07:08:07 localhost -- MARK --
Dec 19 07:08:46 localhost kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Dec 19 07:08:46 localhost kernel: hda3: rw=0, want=6727729416, 
limit=99619065
Dec 19 07:08:46 localhost kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Dec 19 07:08:46 localhost kernel: hda3: rw=0, want=6468239752, 
limit=99619065
Dec 19 07:08:46 localhost kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Dec 19 07:08:46 localhost kernel: hda3: rw=0, want=6727729416, 
limit=99619065
Dec 19 07:09:15 localhost kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Dec 19 07:09:15 localhost kernel: hda3: rw=0, want=6727729416, 
limit=99619065
Dec 19 07:09:48 localhost kernel: EXT3-fs error (device hda3): 
ext3_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 808525856, 
count = 1
Dec 19 07:09:48 localhost kernel: Aborting journal on device hda3.
Dec 19 07:09:48 localhost kernel: EXT3-fs error (device hda3): 
ext3_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 540553529, 
count = 1

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				=aaron=