On Friday 03 February 2006 14:36, Marco Calviani wrote:
> Hi list,
> i'm a Travelmate 8005 laptop user, running an updated gentoo box.
> I'm routinely experiencing system freezes 1 or 2 times every two days,
> without an apparent cause; everything stops, starting from mouse to
> keyboard, so that it is impossible to restart the system.
>
> The system logs of the system does not suggest anything particular
> except for this:
>
> hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { AbortedCommand }
> ide: failed opcode was: 0xec
> hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { AbortedCommand }
> ide: failed opcode was: 0xec
>
> which however i think it is related to cdrom issues.
yupp, kernel waits for some time outs, if you did not set unmaskirq with
hdparm, this may make your laptop pretty unresponsive.
If this happens with all your cds, it is time to buy a new cdrom drive.
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