This happens also to my laptop acer 5920g. Top has shown that hald-addon-storage takes almost 100% of CPU, when this problem happens.<br><br>I have Debian Unstable with kernel 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 and the version of hal is 0.5.14-2.<br>
<br>Here it is reported the trace from syslog when the bug happened:<br><br>Mar 16 21:26:49 acer5920g kernel: [26756.796070] hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } <br>
Mar 16 21:26:49 acer5920g kernel: [26756.796082] hda: possibly failed opcode: 0xa0 <br>Mar 16 21:26:54 acer5920g kernel: [26761.800020] hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } <br>
Mar 16 21:26:54 acer5920g kernel: [26761.800030] hda: possibly failed opcode: 0xa0 <br>Mar 16 21:26:54 acer5920g kernel: [26761.800039] hda: drive not ready for command <br>
Mar 16 21:26:59 acer5920g kernel: [26766.812005] hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } <br>Mar 16 21:26:59 acer5920g kernel: [26766.812010] hda: possibly failed opcode: 0xa0 <br>
Mar 16 21:26:59 acer5920g kernel: [26766.812018] hda: drive not ready for command <br>Mar 16 21:26:59 acer5920g kernel: [26766.819119] ide-cd: hda: weird block size 0; setting default block size to 2048 <br>
Mar 16 21:27:04 acer5920g kernel: [26771.820005] hda: status timeout: status=0xd4 { Busy } <br>Mar 16 21:27:04 acer5920g kernel: [26771.820009] hda: possibly failed opcode: 0xa0 <br>
Mar 16 21:27:04 acer5920g kernel: [26771.820017] hda: drive not ready for command <br><br>Mar 16 21:27:09 acer5920g kernel: [26776.848013] hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } <br>
Mar 16 21:27:09 acer5920g kernel: [26776.848018] hda: possibly failed opcode: 0xa0 <br>Mar 16 21:27:09 acer5920g kernel: [26776.848025] hda: drive not ready for command <br clear="all">
<br>... then a lot of repetitions of these last 3 lines....<br><br>Mar 16 21:31:10 acer5920g udevd[6977]: worker [7812] failed while handling '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.1/ide0/0.0/block/hda' <br><br>Mar 16 21:27:09 acer5920g kernel: [26776.848013] hda: status timeout:
status=0xd0 { Busy
} <br>
Mar 16 21:27:09 acer5920g kernel: [26776.848018] hda: possibly failed
opcode:
0xa0
<br>
Mar 16 21:27:09 acer5920g kernel: [26776.848025] hda: drive not ready for command <br><br>... other repetitions of these last 3 lines ...<br><br>Mar 16 21:32:05 acer5920g kernel: [27073.032518] hda: DMA disabled<br>Mar 16 21:32:05 acer5920g kernel: [27073.032547] hda: drive not ready for command<br>
Mar 16 21:34:53 acer5920g kernel: [ 6.380363] hda: Slimtype DVD A DS8A1P, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive<br>Mar 16 21:34:53 acer5920g kernel: [ 7.052062] hda: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4<br>Mar 16 21:34:53 acer5920g kernel: [ 7.053014] hda: UDMA/33 mode selected<br>
Mar 16 21:34:53 acer5920g kernel: [ 8.468562] ide-cd: hda: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R/RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache<br>Mar 16 21:34:53 acer5920g kernel: [ 119.428030] hda-intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to polling mode: last cmd=0x023b2000<br>
<br>Alberto Quattrini Li<br>