Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Geoffrey Leach wrote: >> On 03/28/07 11:17:33, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >>> Geoffrey Leach wrote: >>>> My new ASUS laptop periodically takes a 30 second or so nap. [snip] > > I have a new laptop, from R-cubed Technologies. They are using an ASUS > motherboard in it. I too am seeing these 30-second hangs, but only when > I'm actively running Windows-XP Pro in a VM-Ware session (at least > that's when I notice it). They are causing SSH and my Windows VPN to > drop the connections due to timeouts. > > I've watched the speed of my disk drive drop from UDMA/133 all the way > down to PIO0 (and it continues to try and drop from there, tho there is > no place to go from there....) Apparently, this is my *empty* DVD+-RW drive which is getting these messages and timeouts. I just got off the phone with R-cubed Technologies, and their workaround for this problem is to put *any* optical disk into the drive. This removes the timeouts from happening, and of course, when the drive *was* timing out, it was hanging the entire SATA disk drive subsystem. Now, with a disk in the drive, no more hangs. R-cubed claims this is a kernel bug (perhaps related to the particular SATA chipset), and will be fixed in one of their kernels in the near future. -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
