Bug#353790: More info

[Jon Kåre Hellan <hellan@acm.org>]

I forgot to tell that I've seen this problem with kernels as far back as
2.6.8. My feeling is that it happens more frequently now than half a
year ago. I know this points in the direction of hardware problems, but
Windows works, even for large file copies. The vendor mounted two disks
and copied a 15 GB dummy file back and forth. Result OK. Test was
repeated while system was stressed. Still OK. Finally a continuous 65
hour stress test.

May be marginal timings have become more problematic over time.

I know this will be hard to track down. Suggestions for workarounds are
welcome. Is there anything like hdparm for SATA?

Regards

Jon