ata: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x0001f607

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Do you mean that this happens after you install Ubuntu or that his happens when booting from the Live CD? Thanks in advance.

when booting from the Live CD ,it shows me that.
 finally i found that ubuntu can't recognize my sata harddisk(WDC WD800jd-00LSA0) .

 the harddisk is on the Channel 3 Secondary (my cd-rom is on the Channel 1 Primary ),i tried fedora 7 too,but it's the same.

 but opensuse can find my harddisk and boot without any problem.

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  发件人: "Brian Murray"<email address hidden>;
 发送时间: 2007年7月25日(星期三) 上午07:53
 收件人: "wyg1258"<email address hidden>;

 主题: [Bug 119640] Re: ata: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x0001f607

 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. Do you mean that this happens after you install Ubuntu
or that his happens when booting from the Live CD? Thanks in advance.

** Changed in: Ubuntu
   Importance: Undecided => Medium
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Brian Murray
       Status: New => Incomplete

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The output of 'lspci -vv' and 'lspci -vvn' from your opensuse system would be helpful for your bug report then. Please add them as attachments. Thanks again!

  my ata information is below (On-chip ATA setting : Auto-mode):

IDE 0 Channel Primary ASUS-CDROM
IDE 0 Channel Primary none
## i don't know why there doesn't has "IDE 1" ,but windows and opensuse could normally boot

IDE 2 Channel Primary WDC WD800JD-00LS
IDE 2 Channel Primary none
IDE 3 Channel Primary none
IDE 3 Channel Primary none

I get this too. It seems to happen for any kernels after 2.6.19 or so. This is a P5K-E motherboard, with a plexer DVD drive. Please tell me if I can do anything to help resolve this; also any ideas of workarounds would be much appreciated.

EsbenMoseHansen - Could you please test this with the latest development release of Ubuntu, the Gutsy Gibbon, and report back? You can learn more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ .

Well, all my testing has been with gutsy gibbon, downloaded a few days ago. The problem seems to be that the ata_piix module grabs the ide channel without being able to drive them. This page http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problems_with_SATA_and_Linux suggest several workaround, of which I tested (on the busybox line, so no install was possible) unloading ata_piix, load ide_generic and then load ata_piix. That seemed to work, but I don't know how to resume the installation after doing that bit of magic.

Esben - Could you try booting the Gutsy Gibbon Live CD by appending the kernel option 'all_generic_ide' to the kernel boot line? You can learn more about modifying boot options at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto . Thanks again!

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and feel free to submit bug reports in the future.