[Bug 53754] Re: ata_piix problem with Intel ICH7 chipset

[Travis Reitter]

I'm getting the same problems on:

Feisty (fully updated as of this post, and regularly updated in general)
Linux 2.6.20-13-generic
Core 2 Duo
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02)

Every once and a while, some things will hang for 30 seconds (until the
driver times out and it does a soft reset).

A few kernel versions back, my Intel WiFi hardware would die
sporadically, and I believe I got kernel messages about hard drive
issues at the same time. So, these timeouts are better than forced
reboots, but it's still really irritating.

Nobody else seems to have mentioned another strange thing I noticed:
'df' lists my data partitions as "hdaN", while only /dev/sda* exist.
This could just be because I've got my partitions mounted by UUID, and
'df' assumes PATA if they aren't mounted by device name, or something.

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ata_piix problem with Intel ICH7 chipset
https://launchpad.net/bugs/53754