> The running running processes keep running, and the GPS listening process > continues to get messages from the USB GPS receiver each second. > > Is that a known (an fixed) problem ? No and I doubt it is a general problem or it would have been reported long ago. Looks like your hard drive just dropped offline - power problems perhaps ? -- 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