Ciao,
ho un problema sempre più fastidioso su un portatile Acer. Accade con una certa frequenza che durante l'utilizzo normale del computer (navigazione in Internet, email e redazione documenti di testo) questo si blocca per qualche secondo non permettendomi di fare alcunché; posso muovere il mouse e a volte spostarmi tra le finestre, amarok continua a suoncare, ma i programmi non rispondono ad alcun comando (non posso aprire o chiudere file, ad esempio).

La stessa cosa accade, anche se con una minor frequenza, con Windows XP MCE.

Penso che possa dipendere dal disco il quale durante questi blocchi si arresta e il computer ricomincia a funzionare quando la spia del funzionamento del disco ricomincia a lampeggiare.

Oggi mi è successo di nuovo e sono andato a vedermi qualche log del kernel. Qualcuno mi può dare una mano a cercare di capire dove possa essere il problema? Nei log si parla effettivamente di disco ma non so se c'è qualche informazione utile per capire come risolvere.

/var/log/warn
Oct 6 09:14:19 opensuse kernel: ata1.01: qc timeout (cmd 0xa0)
Oct 6 09:14:19 opensuse kernel: ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Oct 6 09:14:19 opensuse kernel: ata1.01: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 cdb 0x25 data 8 in
Oct 6 09:14:19 opensuse kernel: res 51/20:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x5 (timeout)
Oct 6 09:14:24 opensuse kernel: ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd1)
Oct 6 09:14:29 opensuse kernel: ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
/var/log/messages
Oct 6 09:14:19 opensuse kernel: ata1.01: qc timeout (cmd 0xa0)
Oct 6 09:14:19 opensuse kernel: ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Oct 6 09:14:19 opensuse kernel: ata1.01: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 cdb 0x25 data 8 in
Oct 6 09:14:19 opensuse kernel: res 51/20:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x5 (timeout)
Oct 6 09:14:24 opensuse kernel: ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd1)
Oct 6 09:14:29 opensuse kernel: ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
Oct 6 09:14:29 opensuse kernel: ata1: soft resetting link
Oct 6 09:14:29 opensuse kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
Oct 6 09:14:29 opensuse kernel: ata1.01: configured for UDMA/33
Oct 6 09:14:29 opensuse kernel: ata1: EH pending after completion, repeating EH (cnt=4)
Oct 6 09:14:29 opensuse kernel: ata1: EH complete
Oct 6 09:14:29 opensuse kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors (120034 MB)
Oct 6 09:14:30 opensuse kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Oct 6 09:14:30 opensuse kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
Oct 6 09:14:30 opensuse kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Oct 6 09:14:31 opensuse kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors (120034 MB)
Oct 6 09:14:31 opensuse kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Oct 6 09:14:31 opensuse kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
Oct 6 09:14:31 opensuse kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA