Comment 7 for bug 106931

I have the same issue, and just wanted to add to this. It's a showstopper for me on feisty because all of my user data, etc is on an ITE RAID-based card, and the array isn't recognized with Feisty 2.6.20-15. I get the following messages at boot time:

[ 36.845127] pata_it821x: controller in smart mode.
[ 36.845254] scsi0 : pata_it821x
[ 162.916378] scsi1 : pata_it821x

followed by some
[ 67.978408] ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x80)
[ 99.629759] ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x80)
[ 131.289096] ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x80)

This seems to be some regression (or something simiar) because it worked fine in the last Beta release of Feisty. I think that the it821x module for some reason hasn't been compiled into the -15 version of the kernel, and that's what is wrong.... the libata interface and the pata_it821x module do NOT like my card for some reason.

Output as requested above:

uname -a:
Linux brian 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 06:17:24 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

lcpci and dmesg output are attached.

email me or let me know how I can help out with this bug ... I guess I could re-compile the kernel and add the module back as a work-around but hopefully a new kernel version will be released soon that has the it821x module back in.