freeze every 5 mins

adamruss · 08-19-2007, 04:50 PM

hey, i just installed a fresh copy of feisty 32bit on my asus z35f laptop, and now it freezes every 5 mins - for about 10 sec's, and then continues normally, i think it's somthing to do with the dvd because this is the "dmesg" output:

Code:

[ 3391.956000] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[ 3391.956000] ata1.01: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 cdb 0x43 data 12 in
[ 3391.956000]          res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 3398.968000] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
[ 3421.984000] ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0)
[ 3421.984000] ata1: soft resetting port
[ 3422.336000] ata1.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 117210240, hpa_sectors = 117210240
[ 3422.348000] ata1.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 117210240, hpa_sectors = 117210240
[ 3422.348000] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 3422.528000] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/33
[ 3422.528000] ata1: EH complete
[ 3422.544000] SCSI device sda: 117210240 512-byte hdwr sectors (60012 MB)
[ 3422.560000] sda: Write Protect is off
[ 3422.560000] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 3422.576000] SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 3422.592000] SCSI device sda: 117210240 512-byte hdwr sectors (60012 MB)
[ 3422.592000] sda: Write Protect is off
[ 3422.592000] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 3422.628000] SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
michal@michal-laptop:~$

please help

Electro · 08-21-2007, 02:27 AM

It seems to be a DMA problem. Enable DMA for your SATA hard drive and optical drive. If this does not work, than it is your power saving settings. You may want to set the governor to performance instead of power saving mode. If it is set to user mode then the scripts that monitor the usage of the computer need to be updated or use different set of monitor usage scripts. The BIOS could also be the problem because ASUS uses strange setup for the BIOS which can effect how Linux behaves.