You asked for more info on the problem that USB mounted storage because 
inaccessable after an indeterminate delay. I eventually got a chance to 
reboot back to the offending kernel, and it has eventually happened 
again. I don't know when exactly, but the system has only been up 12 
days and was up 40-50 days without the issue using an earlier kernel, 
2.6.7rc1mm1nd (-mm1 + nick P patches), 2.6.10-ac10, and I don't recall 
that uptime with 2.6.13rc5git1, but I didn't see the problem pre-2.6.13.

Attached is a zip with the original dmesg and what somes out of dmesg 
-s200000 now. I'd give you the config, but it's on the disk I can no 
longer see, and I'm unlikely to reboot until the weekend, unless I must 
get to the data enough to justify a reboot while monitoring is running. 
The config hasn't changed in a while, at least not more than "make 
oldconfig" does for me.

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   -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
 last possible moment - but no longer"  -me