Comment 27 for bug 297058

Same as headlessspider on:
asus a8J
karmic 9.10
kernel 2.6.31-17-generic
adding the option "irqpoll" to GRUB gives NO changes, freezes stills the same.

here below the syslog

Dec 21 19:04:05 my2912071352 kernel: [ 410.000241] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
Dec 21 19:04:05 my2912071352 kernel: [ 410.000264] ata1.01: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0
Dec 21 19:04:05 my2912071352 kernel: [ 410.000267] cdb 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Dec 21 19:04:05 my2912071352 kernel: [ 410.000270] res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Dec 21 19:04:05 my2912071352 kernel: [ 410.000277] ata1.01: status: { DRDY }
Dec 21 19:04:10 my2912071352 kernel: [ 415.040118] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
Dec 21 19:04:15 my2912071352 kernel: [ 420.024123] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
Dec 21 19:04:15 my2912071352 kernel: [ 420.024138] ata1: soft resetting link
Dec 21 19:04:16 my2912071352 kernel: [ 420.284569] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
Dec 21 19:04:16 my2912071352 kernel: [ 420.316407] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/33
Dec 21 19:04:16 my2912071352 kernel: [ 420.324541] ata1: EH complete
Dec 21 19:04:46 my2912071352 kernel: [ 450.989301] ata1.01: limiting speed to UDMA/25:PIO4
Dec 21 19:04:46 my2912071352 kernel: [ 450.989311] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
Dec 21 19:04:46 my2912071352 kernel: [ 450.989332] ata1.01: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0
Dec 21 19:04:46 my2912071352 kernel: [ 450.989335] cdb 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Dec 21 19:04:46 my2912071352 kernel: [ 450.989337] res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Dec 21 19:04:46 my2912071352 kernel: [ 450.989345] ata1.01: status: { DRDY }
Dec 21 19:04:51 my2912071352 kernel: [ 456.028118] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
Dec 21 19:04:56 my2912071352 kernel: [ 461.012120] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
Dec 21 19:04:56 my2912071352 kernel: [ 461.012135] ata1: soft resetting link
Dec 21 19:04:57 my2912071352 kernel: [ 461.216567] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
Dec 21 19:04:57 my2912071352 kernel: [ 461.248405] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/25
Dec 21 19:04:57 my2912071352 kernel: [ 461.256540] ata1: EH complete