Comment 1 for bug 24291

Hello
I must install a new hard drive (samsung 250Gb sata2 with external usb2 bay)
and i cant partition/format this.
I create 3 partition, write it, but dont looking that. If i like to mkfs.ext3
/dev/sda the syslog contains these error messages:

Nov 19 22:46:29 localhost kernel: usb 4-4: reset high speed USB device using
ehci_hcd and address 37
Nov 19 22:46:29 localhost kernel: usb 4-4: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Nov 19 22:46:29 localhost kernel: usb 4-4: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Nov 19 22:46:29 localhost kernel: usb 4-4: reset high speed USB device using
ehci_hcd and address 37
Nov 19 22:46:29 localhost kernel: usb 4-4: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Nov 19 22:46:29 localhost kernel: usb 4-4: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Nov 19 22:46:30 localhost kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error
recovery: host 15 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
Nov 19 22:46:30 localhost kernel: SCSI error : <15 0 0 0> return code = 0x50000
Nov 19 22:46:30 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 6032688
Nov 19 22:46:30 localhost kernel: printk: 214 messages suppressed.
Nov 19 22:46:30 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block
754086
Nov 19 22:46:30 localhost kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda
Nov 19 22:46:30 localhost kernel: scsi15 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device
Nov 19 22:46:30 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block
754087

Do you have any idea?
(ubuntu 5.10, on ibm t40, original ubuntu 2.6.10-5-686 and 2.6.10-9-686 kernel .
Everything works fine, but i need extra storage)