On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 03:05:53PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > 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 ? Looks more like a irq problem to me. Maybe the USB device causes screaming IRQ and SATA controller is sharing IRQ with the USB host? Phillippe, can you please post the output 'cat /proc/interrupts' and full output of dmesg after the failure? Thanks. -- tejun -- 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
