Comment 72 for bug 84603

I tried some new things to further the resolution on this BUG.

I disconnected the DVD drive, and it did not fix the problem.

I disabled smartmond (which was monitoring my two HDs and worked fine in edgy) and the problem went away.

I no longer got sdb freezing and going away when I booted.

So in this case it turns out to be an interaction between smartmond and the new ata-piix driver and not hald in my case.

I reconnected my cd, and everything still worked, until I put an Audio CD in the drive.

then I got the following errors on my main SATA Hard drive, which resolved itself after about 30 seconds and I was able to rip that cd.

Ripping worked fine under Edgy BTW.

I really regret upgrading to fiesty, but its too late to go back :(

This happened to my primary SATA HD after inserting an Audio CD into the DVD drive...

[ 693.413304] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[ 693.413312] ata1.01: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 cdb 0x43 data 4 in
[ 693.413314] res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 700.452975] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
[ 723.429090] ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0)
[ 723.429095] ata1: soft resetting port
[ 724.914305] ata1.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 586072368, hpa_sectors = 586072368
[ 724.980859] ata1.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 586072368, hpa_sectors = 586072368
[ 724.980864] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 725.146800] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/33
[ 725.146812] ata1: EH complete
[ 725.147503] SCSI device sda: 586072368 512-byte hdwr sectors (300069 MB)
[ 725.147667] sda: Write Protect is off
[ 725.147670] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 725.147900] SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 725.148149] SCSI device sda: 586072368 512-byte hdwr sectors (300069 MB)
[ 725.148261] sda: Write Protect is off
[ 725.148262] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 725.148702] SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

The initial dmesg for the SATA drives

[ 3.041958] ata1.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 586072368, hpa_sectors = 586072368
[ 3.042001] ata1.00: ATA-7: ST3300620AS, 3.AAC, max UDMA/133
[ 3.042036] ata1.00: 586072368 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
[ 3.042071] ata1.01: ATAPI, max UDMA/33
[ 3.042104] ata1.01: applying bridge limits
[ 3.108534] ata1.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 586072368, hpa_sectors = 586072368
[ 3.108576] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 3.275100] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/33
[ 3.275138] scsi1 : ata_piix
[ 3.499816] ata2.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 390721968, hpa_sectors = 390721968
[ 3.499857] ata2.00: ATA-6: ST3200822A, 3.01, max UDMA/100
[ 3.499892] ata2.00: 390721968 sectors, multi 16: LBA48
[ 3.499925] ata2.00: applying bridge limits
[ 3.509867] ata2.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 390721968, hpa_sectors = 390721968
[ 3.509906] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 3.510032] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3300620AS 3.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 3.510979] scsi 0:0:1:0: CD-ROM TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S183L SB01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 3.511815] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3200822A 3.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 3.512328] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.5: MAP [ P0 P2 P1 P3 ]
[ 3.512490] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 3.512558] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
[ 3.512712] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x0001d400 ctl 0x0001d082 bmdma 0x0001c880 irq 17
[ 3.512764] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x0001d000 ctl 0x0001cc02 bmdma 0x0001c888 irq 17
[ 3.512803] scsi2 : ata_piix
[ 3.680982] ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x0001d407
[ 3.681024] scsi3 : ata_piix
[ 3.692419] usb 1-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 3.847805] ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x0001d007
[ 3.872872] SCSI device sda: 586072368 512-byte hdwr sectors (300069 MB)
[ 3.873033] sda: Write Protect is off
[ 3.873063] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 3.873482] SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 3.873552] SCSI device sda: 586072368 512-byte hdwr sectors (300069 MB)
[ 3.873589] sda: Write Protect is off
[ 3.873619] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 3.873629] SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 3.873666] sda:<6>usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 3.888927] sda1 sda2 sda3
[ 3.889329] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
[ 3.889491] SCSI device sdb: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB)
[ 3.889531] sdb: Write Protect is off
[ 3.889562] sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 3.889572] SCSI device sdb: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 3.889634] SCSI device sdb: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB)
[ 3.889671] sdb: Write Protect is off
[ 3.889701] sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 3.889710] SCSI device sdb: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 3.889747] sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4 <sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 3.902794] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 3.902953] sr 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[ 3.919175] sdb5 sdb6 >
[ 3.930032] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb
[ 3.932302] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 3.932349] sr 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
[ 3.932391] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0

The Sata drives (all three) are connected to an Intel ICH8R controller.