Comment 10 for bug 387272

Same deal on my Eee 900/Karmic, using the 'generic-pae'-kernel (since that was what the installer picked).

I removed the 16 gig flash card, since I only had problems on that, in order to be able to boot the eee (root on the 4G, /home on the 16) and use it until I got around to maybe try and recover the removable drive.

When I did that, I started getting same problems on the 4G drive, and now the Eee is for all practical purposes useless (bar a reinstall), getting the same Grub-error as someone mentioned above.

As such, I blame the ata driver in the kernel for these problems.

This is the second straight release in which the (orn rather a) ata-driver is causing data loss (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/346691). I don't know if we're to blame the Linux kernel or Ubuntu, but this is NOT worthy of supposedly release quality software, and as such really ought to be "Critical" rather than "Medium", since it destroys data.

Adam