Comment 2 for bug 701144

Who manufactures the drives, and what chipset is the RAID card? I was receiving the same error messages with two different Western Digital hard drives tested against two different Silicon Image SATA controllers; after replacing the Western Digitals with a Hitachi drive I had no problems. From other bug reports looking up "hard resetting link" on launchpad, it seems like the sata_sil and sata_via modules may not be playing nice with certain combinations of controllers and hard drives. I tried live CDs going back as far as 9.04 as well as the 11.04 RC2 and had the same issue when trying to write or read from the drive. Replacing the hardware was the only solution that worked.