After an upgrade of the firmware on the DVD drive, I can now confirm that the upgrade of the Pioneer DVR-215D (or DBK as in my case -- that is the same drive) to the current version (1.18) fixes the probem with the hard reset and the NVidia 650i (Southbridge MCP51) chipset.
Thanks. -- Boot fails on ata3: SRST failed (errno=-16) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220706 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs