Comment 117 for bug 84603

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Kevin P (kevin-cybercolloids) wrote :

A few more notes from testing. A lot of people talking about CD-ROM drives. I have two optical drives, one Samsung and one NEC.

I disconnected the Samsung drive - same problem.

Connect both optical drives plus Samsung SATA harddrive - problem

Connect both optical drives plus Maxtor SATA harddrive - problem

Disconnect SATA hardrive - no problem

From what I can tell the issue is with the SATA harddrive and not with any of the optical drives. Currently I am using the system everyday with both optical drives and an IDE hard drive with no problems. As soon as I reconnect the SATA hard drive - problems.

The SATA harddrive has been used before in a Ubuntu box with no problems - these issues developed sometime around an upgrade to Feisty. Currently I am using Gutsy with exactly the same problems.

Another point - the piix workaround doesn't seem to be the key to the issue - I have a via board and I get the problem.