Do you see this error now ? I have the same issue when I upgraded from hardy to intrepid. I have the same harddrive - its brand new. I did a clean install of intrepid on a new platform and the errors are there as well.
** Attachment added: "dmesg containting the error" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23018478/hderror.txt -- on upgrade to 8.10: ata1 error, Emask 0x20, BMDMA stat 0x26 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290236 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs