Comment 51 for bug 297058

Reconfirmed with 10.04 (Dell Inspiron 2200), kernel 2.6.32-24-generic.

The behavior is a system-freeze (I/O wait, actually) until the reset, after which all is OK. SMART indicates a healthy drive (I get this with multiple drives) and passes all self-tests.

As this is a laptop I'm limited in terms of replacing cables or changing drive-select options. I still feel this is a kernel/driver issue, and would welcome input from someone familiar with what's going on at this level.

Log:
Sep 3 13:18:26 foo kernel: [36907.836314] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Sep 3 13:18:26 foo kernel: [36907.836323] sr 0:0:1:0: CDB: Read Capacity(10): 25 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Sep 3 13:18:26 foo kernel: [36907.836342] ata1.01: cmd a0/00:00:00:08:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 pio 16392 in
Sep 3 13:18:26 foo kernel: [36907.836344] res 51/20:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
Sep 3 13:18:26 foo kernel: [36907.836348] ata1.01: status: { DRDY ERR }
Sep 3 13:18:28 foo bluetoothd[1322]: Unable to add connection 44
Sep 3 13:18:31 foo kernel: [36912.836148] ata1.01: qc timeout (cmd 0xa0)
Sep 3 13:18:31 foo kernel: [36912.836168] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
Sep 3 13:18:31 foo kernel: [36912.836177] sr 0:0:1:0: CDB: Read Capacity(10): 25 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Sep 3 13:18:31 foo kernel: [36912.836196] ata1.01: cmd a0/00:00:00:08:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 pio 16392 in
Sep 3 13:18:31 foo kernel: [36912.836198] res 51/20:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x5 (timeout)
Sep 3 13:18:31 foo kernel: [36912.836202] ata1.01: status: { DRDY ERR }
Sep 3 13:18:36 foo kernel: [36917.880058] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
Sep 3 13:18:41 foo kernel: [36922.864034] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
Sep 3 13:18:41 foo kernel: [36922.864127] ata1: soft resetting link
Sep 3 13:18:41 foo kernel: [36923.105522] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
Sep 3 13:18:41 foo kernel: [36923.121459] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/25
Sep 3 13:18:41 foo kernel: [36923.121820] ata1: EH complete