I have the same problem with my 2.6.20-15-386 kernel (I'm running feisty). The 2.6.17 kernel was fine on this front. I don't see any ill effects but my computer takes a long time to boot because the error message repeats so many times before giving up. Here's an example of what it looks like:
[ 39.356000] ata2: DRQ=1 with device error, dev_stat 0x59 [ 39.356000] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen [ 39.356000] ata2.00: (BMDMA stat 0x25) [ 39.356000] ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x28 data 2048 in [ 39.356000] ata2: soft resetting port [ 39.840000] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33 [ 39.840000] ata2: EH complete I've attached my dmesg grepped for "ata" ** Attachment added: "dmesg grepped for "ata"" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7334836/dmesgATA.txt -- kernel.log syslog filling up with repeated ata2 and cdrom messages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/95105 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
