Comment 2 for bug 297058

Hello,

I have very similar problem: when I'm shutting down or reseting system (Ubuntu 8.10 AMD64) sometimes, often but not always this takes something about one minute or two, with similar messages, but I do not see those again and again, but once, two times, something like this:

ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
ata1.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
         res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
ata1: soft resetting link
ata1: nv_mode_filter: 0x701f&0x701f->0x701f, BIOS=0x7000 (0xc000c600) ACPI=0x701f (60:900:0x11)
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
ata1: EH complete
ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
ata1.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
         cdb 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
ata1: soft resetting link
ata1: nv_mode_filter: 0x701f&0x701f->0x701f, BIOS=0x7000 (0xc000c600) ACPI=0x701f (60:900:0x11)
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
ata1: EH complete

I'm also using Hitachi hard drive. My hardware is ASUS A6m-Q024 notebook. Uname -a:

Linux kamil-laptop 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:06 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I'm also attaching some info.

Greetings!