Description of problem:

Recently installed a new IDE hard drive in my workstation. With RHEL 5.2 (kernel-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.x86_64) I get the following messages in /var/log/messages when writing to the hard drive:

Oct  8 13:01:18 localhost kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24
Oct  8 13:01:28 localhost kernel: hda: DMA interrupt recovery
Oct  8 13:01:28 localhost kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Oct  8 13:01:28 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
Oct  8 13:01:28 localhost kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown

These message loop continuously until my server hard locks up. (need power cycle the box).

I've also tried running with kernel-2.6.18-118.el5.x86_64 and the same issue occurs.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

RHEL 5.2 (kernel-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.x86_64)

How reproducible:

Consistently occurs.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start dd of /dev/zero to a file stored on the hard drive.
2. After several minutes, note the messages in /var/log/messages (and dmesg at boot time).
3. Watch system lock up.
  
Actual results:

Messages are continously logged and system locks up.

Expected results:

That messages aren't logged and the system does not lock up.

Additional info:

# hdparm -i /dev/hda

/dev/hda:

 Model=ST3250823A, FwRev=3.03, SerialNo=5NF0QTWZ
 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=268435455
 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 
 DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 
 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 
 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
 Drive conforms to: Unspecified:  ATA/ATAPI-1 ATA/ATAPI-2 ATA/ATAPI-3 ATA/ATAPI-4 ATA/ATAPI-5 ATA/ATAPI-6 ATA/ATAPI-7

 * signifies the current active mode

I found a related BZ opened for FC6 that seems related:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=234936

and one for FC4 that seems related:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=132584

Both were closed w/o resolution.