Same bug for me with an Acer Aspire 1692WLMi and a Samsung Spinpoint M80 120GB IDE (not the original hard disk of the computer). See bug #104581 for some other reports of this very annoying bug (since this bug makes the hard disk to corrupt data on all the partitions..)
-- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs