OK, an update. Now running Karmic alpha-2 from a clean install.
uname -a: Linux nigel-laptop 2.6.30-8-generic #9-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 3 15:23:55 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux Periodically get this in the dmesg, but doesn't seem to affect the functionality much; seems to recover just fine: [ 206.820232] ata1: drained 32768 bytes to clear DRQ. [ 206.929759] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [ 206.929773] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:00:5f:e2:16/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 131072 in [ 206.929775] res 40/00:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) [ 206.929779] ata1.00: status: { DRDY } [ 206.929791] ata1: hard resetting link [ 207.360081] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [ 207.737354] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 [ 207.737375] ata1: EH complete -- Large downloads cause SATA link timeout/reset and loss of disk access https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382812 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs