We have been having ongoing issues with Ubuntu 11.04 HVM instances on
AWS EC2 having ATA errors causing long timeouts. AWS engineering is now
saying its due / related to this bug. Seems hard to believe, but I
thought you might be interested.
See: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageI
If what Matt says is true, shouldn't this be incorporated into the next
release of the Ubuntu HVM images? I think people only notice this if
they are running applications that get upset when there is a long pause
like HBase/Zookeeper. In our case it notices that there is a long pause
and considers
