Unassigned from Ben Collins. Marked Invalid. If this is still being
experienced in Karmic or Lucid, please open a new bug and post the
apport data.
-JFo
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Ben Collins (ben-collins) => (unassigned)
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete
This bug report was marked as Confirmed a while ago but has not had any
updated comments for quite some time. Please let us know if this issue
remains in the current Ubuntu release,
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The Ubuntu Kernel Team is planning to move to the 2.6.27 kernel for the
upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. As a result, the kernel team would
appreciate it if you could please test this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel.
There are one of two ways you should be able to test:
1) If you are comfortable
I have the same problem, I have tried different solutions, also mentioned here,
but none of that worked.
Until Feisty the kernel option ide=nodma at least removed the error messages
and speed-up the boot and of course decreased hard disk performance, now withy
Gutsy 7.10 this kernel parameter do
I own an Acer Aspire 162LM Laptop that suffer of this same bug.
Frequently, when I make a high I/O use of the disk I see that the system
Freeze fore some seconds and in the dmesg I see:
[59509.084000] hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
[59519.084000] hda: DMA timeout error
[59519.084000] h
I was able to 'fix' this issue by replacing the hard disk.
While I was doing some heavy I/O on the harddisk, the DMA timeout
occured and the filesystem crashed heavily! I decided to replace the
harddisk (7200 rpm instead of 4800) and I didn't observe the issue
anymore.
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DMA timeouts on UDMA ha
