CentOS 4.1 yum update just hangs NOT-[SOLVED]

[hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com (William Warren)]

This does not look like a yum error.  Your having either file system 
problems or you have a motherboard/cable/hdd problem.

Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
> 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
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