I'm experiencing a similar problem on completely different hardware. It's an Intel-based ASUS notebook with PATA drives. The error occurs repeatedly unless there is a disk in the DVD drive.
OS: a freshly installed and updated Jaunty: Linux tol-sirion 2.6.28-13-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 30 19:49:51 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux The error message: [21536.000080] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [21536.000098] ata1.01: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 [21536.000100] cdb 1e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [21536.000103] res 40/00:02:00:08:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) [21536.000109] ata1.01: status: { DRDY } [21541.040058] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) [21546.024046] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset [21546.024061] ata1: soft resetting link [21546.230280] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 [21546.268463] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/33 [21546.276769] ata1: EH complete [21546.293376] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors: (160 GB/149 GiB) [21546.308475] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [21546.308480] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [21546.340524] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [21546.372794] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors: (160 GB/149 GiB) [21546.388483] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [21546.388488] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [21546.408450] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA I've attached the IDE part of lshw. SMART and chkdsk don't show any problems. Tell me if I should run some more extensive tests or add more information. ** Attachment added: "lshw.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28852756/lshw.log -- AHCI Hard Drive constantly erroring https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/383632 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