Comment 6 for bug 1143495

Having the same issue with an IDE WDC drive. Works fine in Windows and when mounted in Linux Mint 14.

My SATA based WDC drives are not affected.

Here's a log of "inxi -fxxx" if it helps ...

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System: Host: <redacted> Kernel: 3.5.0-26-generic i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.7.2) Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 14 Nadia
Machine: Mobo: Gigabyte model: M57SLI-S4 version: x.x Bios: Award version: FHa date: 04/23/2008
CPU: Dual core AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 svm) bmips: 10850
           Clock Speeds: 1: 2712.503 MHz 2: 2712.503 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV515 [Radeon X1300] bus-ID: 02:00.0
           X.Org: 1.13.0 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1440x900@60.1hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RV515 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 9.0.2 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card: Creative Labs SB X-Fi driver: snd_ctxfi port: 8000 bus-ID: 01:08.0 Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.25
Network: Card: NVIDIA MCP55 Ethernet driver: forcedeth port: e400 bus-ID: 00:08.0
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:1d:7d:d6:61:8b
Drives: HDD Total Size: 410.1GB (1.2% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD2500JB size: 250.1GB serial: WD-WMAEP2579168
           2: id: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD800JD size: 80.0GB serial: WD-WMAM9P293246
           3: id: /dev/sdc model: WDC_WD800JD size: 80.0GB serial: WD-WMAM9P341257
Partition: ID: / size: 19G used: 4.1G (23%) fs: ext4 ID: /home size: 51G used: 495M (2%) fs: ext4
           ID: swap-1 size: 4.09GB used: 0.01GB (0%) fs: swap
RAID: System: supported: N/A
           No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
           Unused Devices: none
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 14.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 143 Uptime: 4:29 Memory: 422.8/1002.9MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.7.2 alt: 4.4 Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.4
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