Comment 19 for bug 112132

On my system I have a couple of hard drives attached to IDE to SATA adapters (specifically, SYBA ADSAIDE-3811 adapters). IDE Hard drive -> sata adapter -> sata port on motherboard. With Ubuntu 7.10 and 7.04 the drives with the adapters don't work and I get this output from dmesg that is attached with this post, which has those same "failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x40)" errors. irqpoll does not work. I tried booting the system with an old version of Knoppix (Linux Knoppix 2.6.17 #4 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 10 2006 i686 GNU/Linux) and the drives work fine with no errors.