Comment 30 for bug 220706

I had the same problem on an asus p5w board and Ubuntu 8.04:

   ata4: SRST failed (errno=-16)

That occurred even when booting in live-cd mode. The problem dissapeared when I changed "sata mode" setting on bios from "enhanced ide" to "ahci". May be developers can find a solution with this new information.

Please, excuse my English, and I hope this info could help someone.