Hi again, >> If I can be of help with more information, please tell me what you need. > > Full dmesg including boot log would be a nice place to start. Did the > kernel say anything during or after such freezes? > > -- > tejun I'm very sorry, this was a false alarm / false assumption. Today, after many days without a freeze, my system just froze in the same manner as I described in the original mail to this list. This is _without_ libata. So it turns out that libata at most has an influence on the system, so that this problem occurs more frequently, but this is also not sure. I'll investigate this further and declare this thread officially closed - forget about it. ;) Patrick. -- Key ID: 0x86E346D4 http://patrick-nagel.net/key.asc Fingerprint: 7745 E1BE FA8B FBAD 76AB 2BFC C981 E686 86E3 46D4 No PGP signature due to problems with webmailer plugin... (solving this one is on my todo list as well ;) ) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html