Bad news everyone... My assumptions about kernel 2.6.32-24 may be wrong... It just failed with the same kind of errors. I will need to start again my research. Meanwhile... this is today's error report:
Dec 12 13:25:12 kernel: [16294.040083] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Dec 12 13:25:12 kernel: [16294.040095] ata3.00: failed command: READ DMA Dec 12 13:25:12 kernel: [16294.040108] ata3.00: cmd c8/00:08:df:01:20/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in Dec 12 13:25:12 kernel: [16294.040111] res 40/00:ff:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/40 Emask 0x4 (timeout) Dec 12 13:25:12 kernel: [16294.040117] ata3.00: status: { DRDY } Dec 12 13:25:17 kernel: [16299.410040] ata3: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Dec 12 13:25:22 kernel: [16304.090043] ata3: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset Dec 12 13:25:22 kernel: [16304.090057] ata3: soft resetting link Dec 12 13:25:27 kernel: [16309.271751] ata3: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Dec 12 13:25:32 kernel: [16314.140114] ata3: SRST failed (errno=-16) Dec 12 13:25:32 kernel: [16314.140383] ata3: soft resetting link Dec 12 13:25:37 kernel: [16319.340133] ata3: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Dec 12 13:25:42 kernel: [16324.200032] ata3: SRST failed (errno=-16) Dec 12 13:25:42 kernel: [16324.200301] ata3: soft resetting link -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/569680 Title: Hard disk write/read freezes for 10 seconds several times in session -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs