Comment 48 for bug 269652

I'm getting this error on boot and it is rendering my two SATA drives unusable. The system still boots and runs off of the PATA disk. I'm running 9.04 and my kernel is up-to-date. I've seen this get fixed and opened and fixed and opened and I was wondering what it would take to re-open it. The machine in question is a Gateway GT5220 http://support.gateway.com/s/PC/R/1009151/1009151sp3.shtml

sandford@compy586:~$ uname -a
Linux compy586 2.6.28-15-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 18 18:40:08 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

sandford@compy586:~$ dmesg | tail -n 20
[ 837.538570] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 100 SControl 300)
[ 837.538600] ata1: hard resetting link
[ 837.802550] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 100 SControl 300)
[ 837.802571] ata2: hard resetting link
[ 838.271564] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 100 SControl 300)
[ 838.271580] ata1: EH pending after 5 tries, giving up
[ 838.271587] ata1: EH complete
[ 838.287149] ata1: hard resetting link
[ 838.534566] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 100 SControl 300)
[ 838.534598] ata2: hard resetting link
[ 839.022578] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 100 SControl 300)
[ 839.022607] ata1: hard resetting link
[ 839.267605] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 100 SControl 300)
[ 839.267634] ata2: hard resetting link
[ 839.754561] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 100 SControl 300)
[ 839.754586] ata1: hard resetting link
[ 839.999574] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 100 SControl 300)
[ 839.999594] ata2: EH pending after 5 tries, giving up
[ 839.999600] ata2: EH complete
[ 840.007298] ata2: hard resetting link