[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

[Johan Van den Neste]

@Andrew
Don't get me wrong, i'm also convinced it's a software issue. I know little about the linux kernel, but I know a lot about concurrent programming, and I know certain bugs only manifest themselves under very specific conditions usually related to very subtle differences in timing (which may also only happen on different processors, different number of cores and so on).

Not that I'm saying it's a concurrency bug.

All I'm saying is that different devices influence the timing of all
sorts of events and that specific combinations of hardware may trigger
specific bugs, and I was guessing that maybe - just maybe - the
combination of the ssd with the card readers triggered this one. (since
the timing characteristics of ssd's are after all quite different from
regular hard drives)

So I would still like to try and disable the card readers entirely
(which I cannot do in the bios). But yes, it's a long shot.

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SSD stall during boot
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852
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