I'm having the same problem after updating the Gutsy kernel to 2.6.22-14, after a reboot i got the following errors:
ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata3.00: cmd c8/00:20:88:d3:d7/00:00:00:00:00/e1 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 16384 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata3: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0) ata3: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset ata3: soft resetting port ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata3: EH complete 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB) Write Protect is off sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA It's a new drive which i'm using for three months now. -- 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