LinuxQuestions.org - Interesting "dmesg" result, possible broken HD?

I keep getting a bunch of weird stuff during the boot process. It takes a while for the system to come up, but when it comes up, everything seems to work okay, but there are delays when trying to access external media (USB devices). I am worried about the errors in the following "dmesg" result and would like to know what to do to fix the problem and make my computer boot faster. Here's the dmesg result:

robert@T-Rex:~$ dmesg
Linux version 2.6.18-5-486 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13) (dannf@debian.org) (gcc ver sion 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 Fri Jun 1 00:07:22 UTC 20 07
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000ec000 - 00000000000f0000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007800000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
120MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 30720
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 26624 pages, LIFO batch:7
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 COMPAQ) @ 0x000ec010
ACPI: RSDT (v001 COMPAQ HAWA7K31 0x00010503 0x00000000) @ 0x000ec080
ACPI: FADT (v001 COMPAQ HAWA7K31 0x00010503 0x00000000) @ 0x000ec0cc
ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ HAWA7K3 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x000ec223
ACPI: DSDT (v001 COMPAQ DSDTTBL 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xee08
Allocating PCI resources starting at 10000000 (gap: 07800000:f87c0000)
Detected 901.644 MHz processor.
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 30720
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 ro
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (010f1000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 2048 bytes)
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Memory: 114412k/122880k available (1499k kernel code, 7916k reserved, 599k
data, 256k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 1805.28 BogoMIPS (lpj=3610569)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Disabled at boot.
Capability LSM initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0 0000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000420 00000000 0000000 0 00000000
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
CPU: AMD Duron(tm) Processor stepping 01
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: Core revision 20060707
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0c08)
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 4235k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfa154, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 10 11 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 15)
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
PCI quirk: region ee00-eeff claimed by vt82c586 ACPI
PCI quirk: region ec00-ec0f claimed by vt82c686 SMB
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0xee00-0xee7f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0xee80-0xeeff has been reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: 80000000-800fffff
PREFETCH window: 88000000-8fffffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 2048)
TCP reno registered
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1201542290.212:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
PCI: Disabling Via external APIC routing
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:03: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBD,PNP0f0e:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
Using IPI Shortcut mode
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 256k freed
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.13-NAPI (May 11, 2002)
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:04.0 (0004 -> 0007)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:04.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
tulip0: MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7849 advertising 05e1.
eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 00011000, 00:0C:41:E2:AE:5D, IRQ 10.
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci0000:00:14.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1840-0x1847, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1848-0x184f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
hda: WDC WD300AB-60BVA0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: Memorex 52MAXX 2452AJ, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: irq 11, io base 0x00001800
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 58633344 sectors (30020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=58168/16/63, UDMA(66)
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda:hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.3[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.3: irq 11, io base 0x00001820
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ide0: reset: success
hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
Attempting manual resume
usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
SCSI subsystem initialized
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb-storage: device found at 2
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
parport_pc: VIA 686A/8231 detected
parport_pc: probing current configuration
parport_pc: Current parallel port base: 0x378
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, using FIFO [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EC P]
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected VIA Twister-K/KT133x/KM133 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0x90000000
parport_pc: VIA parallel port: io=0x378, irq=7
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
vt596_smbus 0000:00:14.4: SMBUS: Error: Host SMBus controller not enabled! - upgrade BIOS or use force=1
Vendor: ST94011A
Model:
Rev: 0 0
Type: Direct-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 00
usb-storage: device scan complete
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
via686a 0000:00:14.4: base address not set - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xad dr
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input2
SCSI device sda: 78140160 512-byte hdwr sectors (40008 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 33 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 78140160 512-byte hdwr sectors (40008 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 33 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda:<6>ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.5[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:14.5 to 64
sda1 sda2 sda3
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Adding 345356k swap on /dev/hda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:345356k
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.7.0-ioctl (2006-06-24) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 3
PCI: setting IRQ 3 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
[drm] Initialized savage 2.4.1 20050313 on minor 0
mtrr: base(0x8a000000) is not aligned on a size(0x5000000) boundary
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode
FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!

And that's it. Any ideas?