I opened up the chassis to double confirm that it's the SATA HDD, not the SAS HDD in this system, but this HDD is connected to the motherboard with a SAS adapter and a SAS cable.
tested with the daily-live kernel (3.14.0-999, 2014 Apr. 6) the error still exist ubuntu@201109-9790:/var/log$ cat dmesg | grep -i error [ 0.646206] ioapic: probe of 0000:00:05.4 failed with error -22 [ 1.967203] sas: ata7: end_device-0:0: dev error handler [ 8.272512] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro [ 12.687013] sas: ata7: end_device-0:0: cmd error handler [ 12.687045] sas: ata7: end_device-0:0: dev error handler -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1286979 Title: [Dell Precision T7600] Errors in found dmesg To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-saucy/+bug/1286979/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs