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.
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.