This still occurs after having flashed the TS-L632D to bios A01 (Acer, from toshibaer's site), as well as having done a motherboard BIOS update also.
I may have found a way to trigger this very quickly. I put in CD-RW media in the drive, and launched Serpentine to burn a series of files to CD: system nearly froze. Difficult to get a root shell, and needed to both kill hald-addon-storage and reset the drive through hdparm. Does anyone know how to decrease hal's polling interval ? This wold help, until the issue is fixed in both the kernel & hal (I hope such fixes will be bckported.) Snips from dmesg, nothing new. ... [ 1.956000] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx [ 4.824000] ide0: BM-DMA at 0x3080-0x3087, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio [ 4.824000] ide1: BM-DMA at 0x3088-0x308f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio [ 4.824000] Probing IDE interface ide0... [ 5.828000] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 [ 5.844000] Probing IDE interface ide1... [ 7.252000] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 ... [ 151.648000] hdc: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } [ 151.648000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown ... [ 3593.800000] hdc: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } [ 3593.800000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown [ 3593.800000] hdc: drive not ready for command [ 3593.800000] hdc: DMA disabled [ 3593.852000] hdc: ATAPI reset complete -- Feisty freeze, kernel (?) tries to access DVD drive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/75295 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