Comment 23 for bug 297058

This bug is annoying to me since Ubuntu 7.04 and affects accesses to the hard drive periodically (my computer: Samsung R65 notebook). Until 9.04 I was able to avoid it by disabling the CD drive polling (sudo hal-disable-polling --device /dev/sr0), CD drive seems to influence the occurrence, but since I installed Karmic (yesterday) this is without effect.

Nov 9 01:05:10 r65 kernel: [ 6597.046016] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
Nov 9 01:05:15 r65 kernel: [ 6602.029064] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
Nov 9 01:05:15 r65 kernel: [ 6602.029080] ata1: soft resetting link
Nov 9 01:05:15 r65 kernel: [ 6602.233383] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
Nov 9 01:05:15 r65 kernel: [ 6602.249391] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/33
Nov 9 01:05:15 r65 kernel: [ 6602.257800] ata1: EH complete