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Comment 1 for bug 270794

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Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout) wrote : Re: hard disk random freezes - ubuntu 8.04

First of all, don't worry about the error messages from hdparm. Hdparm is for IDE disks. Try the same thing with "sdparm" instead, and you'll see it works fine.

Then, the messages in your kernel log (dmesg) seem normal, so no clues from there.

Can you try and maybe identify in which cases the disk freezes? What exactly happens when it freezes? Does the whole system freeze, or just your transfer stops?

Have you considered the possibility of a failing disk? Try installing smartmontools, which will let you see the SMART messages from your disks...

Finally, just in case, try upgrading to the latest kernel and see if that fixes it...

good luck