@Diminik: Thanks for the suggestions. I know an expert could learn more about it with some write and read tests, especially using the earlier beta releases where the installation failed every time. I don't think I saw it at any of the links in my comment above, but somewhere I was reading that people were speculating about a bug in the SSD firmware that's getting exposed with the newer driver.
HOWEVER I am a little hesitant to write TOO much to this drive -- it's flash-based, and when I recently looked at its SMART status, it claimed to be at 20% of its rated life already (and I've owned the drive for less than a year). In fact, something about the way Karmic runs -- it very frequently pauses for tens of seconds with the drive busy light on solid, especially when it has resumed from a suspend. I don't know if it's updating atimes, the ext4 journal, or what. Maybe something is wearing out the drive. My next step will be to try another standard install of Karmic 9.10 NBR, this time choosing to use ext3, just to see if there's a difference from the default ext4. If its behavior still seems worrisome I will probably revert to Jaunty 9.04, which was faster booting and reasonably good once the updates get installed. -- beta installer left ASUS EeePC 900 unbootable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/430333 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
