Mysterious HDD errors

Whenever installing packages from the CD distribution, I get the following unhelpful error:
ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
ata2.00: unexpected or too much trailing data buf=131072 cur=131072 bytes=2048
ata2.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:fc/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 pio 131072 in
cdb 28 00 00 00 03 c7 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
res 58/00:02:00:00:08/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
ata2.00: status: { DRDY DRQ }
Is there any way to increase the size of this buffer that is apparently full, or to slow down aif so it won't hammer the HDD into submission? I'm somewhat new to *nix.

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Appendix: #1
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This report created by Active SMART
http://www.ariolic.com/activesmart/
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S.M.A.R.T. status
Date: 2007/01/18 20:05:32
Model Name: HTS541080G9SA00
Serial number: MPBDL0XKKE3RBG
Capacity: 80.0 GB
Firmware: MB4OC60R
Drive interface: IDE
Current temperature: 35 C (95 F)
Attribute Name Threshold Value Worst Raw value
1 (01) Raw Read Error Rate 62 100 100 0
2 (02) Throughput Performance 40 100 100 0
3 (03) Spin Up Time 33 253 253 55834574849
4 (04) Start/Stop Count 0 100 100 363
5 (05) Reallocated Sectors Count 5 100 100 0
7 (07) Seek Error Rate 67 100 100 0
8 (08) Seek Time Performance 40 100 100 0
9 (09) Power-On Hours 0 100 100 194
10 (0A) Spin Retry Count 60 100 100 0
12 (0C) Device Power Cycle Count 0 100 100 256
191 (BF) G-sense Error Rate 0 100 100 0
192 (C0) Power-off Retract Count 0 100 100 5177348
193 (C1) Load/Unload Cycle Count 0 100 100 4300
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196 (C4) Reallocation Event Count 0 100 100 0
197 (C5) Current Pending Sector Count 0 100 100 0
198 (C6) Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 100 100 0
199 (C7) UltraDMA CRC Error Count 0 200 253 0

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