On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 08:51:09AM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> I don't think I've ever seen this under 1.6 - a failing disk would
> prevent or slow down accesses to itself, but it didn't bring the
> whole system to halt.  Maybe something happened to the driver when
> it was split into different chipset drivers?

Correction: The laptop is running 1.6, so the problem has been present
for quite some time now.  (The laptop is not mine, couldn't check the
version.. sorry fr the misinformation.)
 
  -jm