Comment 95 for bug 228302

Switching to ata_generic instead of pata_ali... Okay, where are these things... I have sata drives. Okay, so if I wanna try this change, how do I go about doing it?

You can omit the first step, because I already know how to open a terminal window! My drives do not show up as /dev/hdX they show up as /dev/sdX, you prob know that, and this could be the symptom of not having and being able to enable 32-bit IO.

I read an earlier reply, might have been yours Igor, where trying this change might screw the pooch and render your ubuntu inopperable and it did for the person posting that reply... What about if pop in a different hard drive (a IDE one) or just create another partition on my existing SATA so that I can install a fresh copy of Karmic, just so I can TEST out changing to the ata_generic...if it works in there, then it should be fine for me to do it to my real installation of karmic right?

Also, right after your reply to me, I see you posted some kind of...
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released

Where, where's this fix...how do I find it?

So do I follow those instructions in that earlier reply where the dude screwed the pooch? And see if it works in a new install, and if so, perform those steps to my real existing karmic?

Is these any program, like a patch file than can just test...or switch things...then if it dont work, it could switch back?

Cheers!