CentOS 4.1 yum update just hangs NOT-[SOLVED]

[robin at bullseye.tv (Robin Mordasiewicz)]

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>
> After doing some more research I tried using the unsupported kernel from the 
> centosplus repo and everything works fine now.
>
> Thanks for the excellent hints on where to look. I would never guessed that 
> it was a kernel incompatiblity problem.

spoke too soon.
I got further in the yum update but it quit with

Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Updating: zlib 100 % done 1/128
/sbin/ldconfig: File /usr/lib/liblapack.so.3.0.3.#prelink#.3qFZHx is 
empty, not checked.

and on the console I see...

ata3: command 0xca timeout ....
ata3: status 0xda { Busy }
SCSI error <2 0 0 0 >
Current sda: sense key aborted command
Additional sense: scsi parity error
end_request: I/O error /dev/sda
EXT3fs error: ... journal has aborted