In the even that someone ever actually sees my bug report, I'd like to
offer a related philosophical statement.
There are like 80 pages of Ubuntu bugs similar to this one reported on
launchpad - all with the same, or very nearly the same error message -
from people with differing configurations. Some of the reports have over
a hundred comments. The earliest reports date back literally YEARS.
This tells me one of two things. Either:
1. The error message everyone is suffering from is in some way too
general to actually reflect the underlying problem, meaning that
possibly MANY different issues are causing the SAME error to be produced
under diverse conditions.
Or:
2. There is a deep flaw in the method that Ubuntu / Linux is using to
handle ATA connections.
It appears that no one is working on this. I don't understand why.
In light of Bug #1 ("Microsoft has majority market share") it seems to
me that this is a VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM. Ubuntu's failure to exhibit
standard-compliant behavior prevents it from operating in environments
where other operating systems - such as Microsoft Windows XP - encounter
no difficulties.
For me this bug is a dealbreaker. It is preventing me from installing
Ubuntu on the hardware that I have purchased for it.
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Ubuntu install to Compact Flash w/ ata_piix fails: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0
SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363786
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