A short time after booting (F10) keyboard en mouse are freezing. When I get the time to open a terminal I see this in /var/log/messages: ... Dec 27 12:13:17 localhost kernel: ata5.00: mnd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 Dec 27 12:13:17 cdb 00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00 Dec 27 12:13:17 res 40/00:03:00:00/00:00:00:00:00:/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) Dec 27 12:13:17 ata5.00: status: { DRDY } Dec 27 12:13:17 ata5: EH complete Dec 27 12:13:17 ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
I found some information about these messages on http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Libata_error_messages. I booted with the options: "noapic", or "acpi=off" or "pci=nomsi", but none of them are useful. Does this mean I have an issue with the hard disk or the SATA-controller? Does anyone have a suggestion? Peter