I am seeing the same errors on a Hitachi 2.5" 40G drive (originally from my PS3 prior to upgrading it). The drive model is HTS541640J9SA00, 5V 700mA 5400RPM. I am using a SATA extension cable to hook it up (see attached picture). I purchased two of these, and modified one so that I can plug it into an external power supply. Both cables have been tested on a laptop and work flawlessly. The drive also works fine when I plug it into a usb<>sata cable and run it that way on the babbage 2.5.
** Attachment added: "sata-extension-cable-22-pin-male-to-female.jpg" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33266331/sata-extension-cable-22-pin-male-to-female.jpg -- io/fs errors when launching gdm on imx51 with sata https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/431963 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