File system corruption with Severn

[Alan Cox]

> I've just switched the hard disk with a smaller one. Seem to work fine
> for now.  I've experienced some lockup too, but that must be my old
> i740. 
> 
> The corruption appeared while doing a lot of file transfer, i tried to
> disable the dma for the drive but the corruption appeared anyway. 

If you can duplicate this reliably can you install the beta, then swap the
kernel for a generic kernel (either kernel.org, -ac or for that matter the
RH9 kernel) and see if it occurs again ?