Greetings,

I get a few million of these on boot-- the system never actually boots.
Works fine in 2.6.23-rc7.

[   50.456012] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[   50.462484] ata2.00: irq_stat 0x40000001
[   50.466441] ata2.00: cmd e5/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
cdb 0x0 data 0
[   50.466442]          res 51/04:00:01:01:80/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask
0x1 (device error)
[   50.481914] ata2.00: status: {DRDY ERR }
[   50.485876] ata2.00: error: {ABRT }
[   50.489533] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133
[   50.493839] ata2: EH complete

I've attached the entire dmesg and lspci.

Berck