I was able to avoid the system freeze by entering the BIOS setup utility and disabling almost all integrated peripherals: usb, eth0, serial and parallel port, game/midi port, audio subsystem.
The PATA subsystem was not disabled, and a 80GB disk (the system disk) was attached to it. I have since loaded the system with heavy I/O on the three sata disks, and everything is running fine. As soon as I have the time, I want to repeat the tests by enabling one peripheral at a time to hopefully find the culprit... -- system hangs when reading from multiple VT6421 PCI sata cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/398392 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
