I've read through this and countless other posts about this issue (which
I am also experiencing). It truly does render the computer useless.
The only big thing that jumps out at me in this thread is that everyone
is mentioning problems with their CD/DVD drives, and upgrading firmware,
etc. So... I don't even HAVE an optical drive installed on the system,
and this problem happens every time I boot.
I do have an Intel chipset, and I was thinking I'd try blacklisting the
ata piix module, but currently I am remote (over ssh), and the computer
takes several minutes to respond even to shell commands. So I'd venture
to say this isn't only a problem with optical drives. All I have is 3
internal SATA drives. No external USB, no optical, no floppy. I also
tried stopping the HAL daemon, and initially it seemed JUST A LITTLE
better, although the messages still show up in the syslog. I don't know
if I should try to blacklist ata piix while I'm remote, as I've noticed
in reading through posts that it might render the machine unbootable.
Anything else I can try? This is running Intrepid with all recent
updates, 3 internal SATA drives, two of which are using mdadm for 3
RAID1 partitions and 1 RAID0 partition. And I've done countless
diagnostics and all hardware appears normal. Also, I've removed the
third (non-RAID) drive and the problem still happens. errors:
Jan 5 10:10:15 kaya kernel: [ 6132.945046] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct
0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
Jan 5 10:10:15 kaya kernel: [ 6132.945062] ata3.00: cmd
c8/00:08:61:36:db/00:00:00:00:00/e5 tag 0 dma 4096 in
Jan 5 10:10:15 kaya kernel: [ 6132.945066] res
40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Jan 5 10:10:15 kaya kernel: [ 6132.945074] ata3.00: status: { DRDY }
Jan 5 10:10:15 kaya kernel: [ 6132.945090] ata3: soft resetting link
Jan 5 10:10:15 kaya kernel: [ 6133.181465] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100
Jan 5 10:10:15 kaya kernel: [ 6133.181487] ata3: EH complete
Jan 5 10:10:15 kaya kernel: [ 6133.194973] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 234441648
512-byte hardware sectors (120034 MB)
Jan 5 10:10:15 kaya kernel: [ 6133.195229] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is
off
Jan 5 10:10:15 kaya kernel: [ 6133.195236] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a
00 00
Jan 5 10:10:15 kaya kernel: [ 6133.221708] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache:
enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Jan 5 10:10:46 kaya kernel: [ 6163.908049] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct
0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
Jan 5 10:10:46 kaya kernel: [ 6163.908063] ata3.00: cmd
c8/00:20:89:30:db/00:00:00:00:00/e5 tag 0 dma 16384 in
Jan 5 10:10:46 kaya kernel: [ 6163.908065] res
40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Jan 5 10:10:46 kaya kernel: [ 6163.908071] ata3.00: status: { DRDY }
Jan 5 10:10:46 kaya kernel: [ 6163.908083] ata3: soft resetting link
Jan 5 10:10:46 kaya kernel: [ 6164.144466] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100
Jan 5 10:10:46 kaya kernel: [ 6164.144487] ata3: EH complete
Jan 5 10:10:46 kaya kernel: [ 6164.161017] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 234441648
512-byte hardware sectors (120034 MB)
Jan 5 10:10:46 kaya kernel: [ 6164.161303] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is
off
Jan 5 10:10:46 kaya kernel: [ 6164.161314] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a
00 00
Jan 5 10:10:46 kaya kernel: [ 6164.175907] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache:
enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
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Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603
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