Results:
2.0.30 + pre-patch-2 + Werner's July 22nd - crashed on writing the
superblocks and filesystem
accounting information
2.1.47 + both of Bill Hawes's patches - crashed in the eata_dma driver,
fixed by adjusting timeout values
2.1.47 + both of Bill Hawes's patches
+ multiplying all timeouts in scsi.c and sd.c by 10 (thanks to
Michael Neuffer for suggestion) - worked!
Later,
Zach