Comment 12 for bug 1161985

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Robert (roseg) wrote : Re: [Bug 1161985] Re: Error sending ATA command IDENTIFY DEVICE

Hallo Thomas

Many thanks for the workaround. I can confirm it works.

Would you know if any plans exist to fix this in a future version of
udisks?

On Fre, 2013-08-02 at 07:35 +0000, Thomas Forgber wrote:
> Sry for the late repley - just found this!
> One simple workaround is to manually downgrade the udisks2 package:
>
> HOW TO:
>
> Download an older version of the package eg here:
> www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/core/quantal/main/base/udisks2
>
> go to folder which includes the package an type:
>
> sudo dpkg -i package.deb
>
> Now check the Version again with:
>
> sudo apt-cache showpkg udisks2
>
> It should show you the downloaded version number now + some dependences (like this)
> Provides:
> 2.1.0-2 - udisks2:i386
> 2.0.0-1 - udisks2:i386
> Reverse Provides:
> udisks2:i386 2.1.0-2
>
> Now you have to lock the version in order to not update it automatically
> while apt-get update is running either with synaptic or console:
>
> Synaptic:
> search for udisks2 - it should show you again the downloaded version, mark it, and select lock version under package
>
> console:
> sudo echo “package hold” | sudo dpkg –set-selections
>
> If all is done reboot, test it and run
>
> sudo apt-get update
>
> to check if it gets updated or not.
>
> Hope that works for you guys!
>

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Robert