Comment 22 for bug 297058

affects me too. I thought it was my PATA 2.5" HDD and replaced 2. Still happens on my 3rd drive.

[ 6015.274312] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[ 6015.274316] ata1.00: error: { ABRT }
[ 6015.274399] ata1.00: NODEV after polling detection
[ 6015.274403] ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-2)
[ 6015.274407] ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
[ 6017.775854] ata1: soft resetting link
[ 6017.898195] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 6017.898219] ata1: EH complete
[ 6017.915044] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB)
[ 6017.915188] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 6017.915192] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 6017.915555] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 6059.238436] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[ 6059.238445] ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x65
[ 6059.238453] ata1.00: cmd ca/00:08:f1:02:0c/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 out
[ 6059.238455] res 51/04:08:71:02:0c/04:01:18:19:3f/60 Emask 0x1 (device error)
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