Comment 9 for bug 84603

My problem began after a Feisty update as well.

Try booting into recovery mode and running e2fsck on each partition.
Then add the kernel options acpi=off pci=bios That seems to have got my
system working again. I did some tests last night and could boot with
acpi=off but without the option I had problems. I have also noticed some
hard disk corruption now as well. The same disk worked with no problems
when I booted using an old knoppix disk. So I conclude there is a
problem somewhere between the libata driver and the hardware.

Florian Schmid wrote:
> Some here on feisty after upgrading to latest Kernel 2.6.20-13-generic:
>
> [ 5249.792000] SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
> [ 5249.792000] sda: Write Protect is off
> [ 5249.792000] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> [ 5249.792000] SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> [ 5519.372000] ata1.01: qc timeout (cmd 0xa0)
> [ 5519.372000] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
> [ 5519.372000] ata1.01: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 0
> [ 5519.372000] res 51/20:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x5 (timeout)
> [ 5526.372000] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd1)
> [ 5549.388000] ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd1)
> [ 5549.388000] ata1: soft resetting port
> [ 5549.740000] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
> [ 5549.920000] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/33
> [ 5549.920000] ata1: EH complete
>
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