Same as headlessspider on: asus a8J karmic 9.10 kernel 2.6.31-17-generic adding the option "irqpoll" to GRUB gives NO changes, freezes stills the same.
here below the syslog Dec 21 19:04:05 my2912071352 kernel: [ 410.000241] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Dec 21 19:04:05 my2912071352 kernel: [ 410.000264] ata1.01: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 Dec 21 19:04:05 my2912071352 kernel: [ 410.000267] cdb 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Dec 21 19:04:05 my2912071352 kernel: [ 410.000270] res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) Dec 21 19:04:05 my2912071352 kernel: [ 410.000277] ata1.01: status: { DRDY } Dec 21 19:04:10 my2912071352 kernel: [ 415.040118] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Dec 21 19:04:15 my2912071352 kernel: [ 420.024123] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset Dec 21 19:04:15 my2912071352 kernel: [ 420.024138] ata1: soft resetting link Dec 21 19:04:16 my2912071352 kernel: [ 420.284569] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 Dec 21 19:04:16 my2912071352 kernel: [ 420.316407] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/33 Dec 21 19:04:16 my2912071352 kernel: [ 420.324541] ata1: EH complete Dec 21 19:04:46 my2912071352 kernel: [ 450.989301] ata1.01: limiting speed to UDMA/25:PIO4 Dec 21 19:04:46 my2912071352 kernel: [ 450.989311] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Dec 21 19:04:46 my2912071352 kernel: [ 450.989332] ata1.01: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 Dec 21 19:04:46 my2912071352 kernel: [ 450.989335] cdb 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Dec 21 19:04:46 my2912071352 kernel: [ 450.989337] res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) Dec 21 19:04:46 my2912071352 kernel: [ 450.989345] ata1.01: status: { DRDY } Dec 21 19:04:51 my2912071352 kernel: [ 456.028118] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Dec 21 19:04:56 my2912071352 kernel: [ 461.012120] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset Dec 21 19:04:56 my2912071352 kernel: [ 461.012135] ata1: soft resetting link Dec 21 19:04:57 my2912071352 kernel: [ 461.216567] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 Dec 21 19:04:57 my2912071352 kernel: [ 461.248405] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/25 Dec 21 19:04:57 my2912071352 kernel: [ 461.256540] ata1: EH complete -- Consistent repeating [ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient ] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/297058 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