I am having this problem as well. 9.04 on Nvidia borad with sata drives. I get the error message on my sata's that don't have anything plugged in, and are turned off in the BIOS. I tried using the libata.force, but I get a "not found" message that I believe indicates there is no libata command on my grub.
Im hoping to get my hands on the Karmic Beta to see if the problem exists in that version, but until then I'm stuck with a home PC that might as well be an end table since I have no other OS to install on it, 9.04 worked fine for me for months. This error just started within the last week so I would guess it has something to do with an update I installed. -- Boot fails on ata3: SRST failed (errno=-16) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220706 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