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On Friday 03 February 2006 14:36, Marco Calviani wrote: |
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> Hi list, |
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> i'm a Travelmate 8005 laptop user, running an updated gentoo box. |
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> I'm routinely experiencing system freezes 1 or 2 times every two days, |
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> without an apparent cause; everything stops, starting from mouse to |
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> keyboard, so that it is impossible to restart the system. |
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> The system logs of the system does not suggest anything particular |
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> except for this: |
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> |
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> hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } |
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> hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { AbortedCommand } |
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> ide: failed opcode was: 0xec |
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> hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } |
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> hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { AbortedCommand } |
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> ide: failed opcode was: 0xec |
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> |
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> which however i think it is related to cdrom issues. |
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yupp, kernel waits for some time outs, if you did not set unmaskirq with |
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hdparm, this may make your laptop pretty unresponsive. |
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If this happens with all your cds, it is time to buy a new cdrom drive. |
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