From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Frequent ATA errors Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:46:36 +0900 Message-ID: <47D387CC.20906@gmail.com> References: <47D19C42.60301@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.189]:14236 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750718AbYCIGqm (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Mar 2008 01:46:42 -0500 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so739439rvb.1 for ; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:46:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <47D19C42.60301@gmx.net> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: LCID Fire Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org LCID Fire wrote: > Hi. > I have a big problem. Since 2.6.22 I keep getting ata errors. Most of > the time my computer (Intel P965 Chipset) ran fine - but then suddenly > it began to stutter - the mouse was only moving very little and all > input was lagged like hell. The only chance to get rid of this is to > restart. > It has continued to my current 2.6.24. In between there were times > (kernel revisions) when it was better - meaning the error did only occur > every few days or so. With the current 2.6.24 I have it almost every > hour - I restarted my computer 10 times today alone. The errors look > like the following: Does "hal-disable-polling /dev/sr0" help? -- tejun