all_generic_ide seems to work for me on a Dell Inspiron 530 (Intel Q6660, G33/31 motherboard with SATA DVD and SATA HD)
Previous I was seeing these errors on boot: [22,046581] irq 19: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) [22.046669] handlers: [22.046678] [<ffffffff880552c0?] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x60 [usbcore]) [22.046692] [<ffffffff880552c0?] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x60 [usbcore]) [22.411254] Disabling IRQ #19 [22.411647] usb 3-1: device not accepting address 2, error -71 [87.369892] ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) [122.497506] ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) [127.497562]ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen [127.497611]ata2.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:24:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 pio 35 in [127.497674]ata2.00: status: { DRDY } ... ata2: WARNING: synchronous SCSI scan failed without making any progress, -- ATA Revalidation Failed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/206635 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