At boot time the kernel prints the following error message:
JMB361 dma_base is invalid.
The BIOS for some reason didn't assign resources to the IDE DMA base
register, which should not be fatal in itself (it'll switch th PIO
modes)
After a while it also complains about USB devices:
usb 3-2: device not accepting address 2, error -71
Thats usually IRQ routing problems
The main problem is that after some minutes from the boot the PC
starts
to freeze and than go back to normal. It does this let's say once every
minute. The /var/log/messages reports the following message (repeated
every couple of seconds):
Jan 25 16:28:33 bart kernel: hde: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
Jan 25 16:28:33 bart kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jan 25 16:28:33 bart kernel: hde: drive not ready for command
Your disk on hde went for a walk.
Can you send me an lspci -vvxxx for both kernels please, and a dmesg (off
list)
Alan