Having same problem here. An upgrade from fiesty to gutsy started the problems. Discovered that if I boot the fiesty kernel 2.6.20-16 all is well. Booting gutsy kernel 2.6.22-14 causes emask errors and ata soft resets. Unlike the above user I have to wait tens of minutes before I get into kdm.
Having same problem here. An upgrade from fiesty to gutsy started the problems. Discovered that if I boot the fiesty kernel 2.6.20-16 all is well. Booting gutsy kernel 2.6.22-14 causes emask errors and ata soft resets. Unlike the above user I have to wait tens of minutes before I get into kdm.
There is a thread here with users having similar troubles: http:// ubuntuforums. org/showthread. php?t=579686
Motherboard is ASUS A7S-VM, SiS730S chipset, SIS5513 ide controller.