my laptop sometimes stop responding with disk errors

[NoOp]

On 03/05/2011 06:29 AM, Jeff Lane wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 02:04, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> $ sudo smartctl --all /dev/sda  shows PASSED
> 
> Cool... good for you :)
> So the next thing is filesystem problems... Pick out one of the error
> messages you're seeing and do a google search on it (without the
> timestamps, obviously):
> 
> Such as one of these two:
> ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x3 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
...

Or:

READ FPDMA QUEUED

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/550559
[hdd problems, failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED]
and this might also be of interest:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/122588
[How do I fix a boot error: "failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED"]

<https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=READ+FPDMA+QUEUED&field.actions.search=Search>

[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&complete=0&q=ubuntu+%2B"READ+FPDMA+QUEUED"&btnG=Search]