Comment 137 for bug 290153

Oddly enough, I had this problem constantly when I was running the 2.6.27 kernel and above (getting the SRST failed. I decided to switch from Ubuntu's kernel to the mainline Linux kernel for now (and am running 2.6.29.1 at the time) and it seems to have partially fixed the problem. The only weird thing from viewing dmesg output in 2.6.29.1 is that the CPU stalls out for ~14 seconds. It doesn't need rootdelay either, but there's obviously still a stall while it probes the IDE interfaces.

This may somehow be related to bug 294123.

Anyway, the strange thing is, what caused my previous errors was this configuration:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 651 Host (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS962 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 04)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller (rev a0)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:0e.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
00:0f.0 Multimedia video controller: Sony Corporation Device 8087 (rev 01)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:13.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): NEC Corporation uPD72874 IEEE1394 OHCI 1.1 3-port PHY-Link Ctrlr (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440] (rev a3)

I don't even see anything Intel in there, so there may be a problem with more than Intel cards. Attached is my 2.6.27.10 dmesg output, clearly showing the SRST failed messages.