Comment 27 for bug 1318218

Hi Matt,
did you try the workaround that I suggested in the bugreport? Does it work? I still need to do it on my machine, but it mitigates the problem.

Cheers,
Nils

> Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. Januar 2015 um 08:50 Uhr
> Von: "Matt Hanyok" <email address hidden>
> An: <email address hidden>
> Betreff: [Bug 1318218] Re: SATA problems on MacBook Pro 11,1?
>
> So, I used gparted to format the drive with a single ext4 partition,
> rebooted the system, mounted it, and the errors came back.
>
> It's not a hardware issue. It's some combination of the OS, chipset,
> file system in use, and maybe (?) drive type. I can use the same drive
> on a Gigabyte board that uses the B85 chipset and have zero issues, so
> it doesn't seem to be the entire lynx point chipset family. The Z87 on
> this board is the revised C2 stepping.
>
> Anecdotal evidence from web searches might indicate some relation to
> ASrock Z87 boards in particular, but then, user reports of the error go
> back several years, and earlier reports were oftentimes hardware issues.
> And obviously, in the case of the initial bug report here, it was a
> Macbook Pro.
>
> I'm attaching dmesg output from the same system, this is from a fresh
> boot to a live environment and mounting the drive by clicking it in
> nautilus. The errors were back, just as they were before.
>
> After reinstalling the Windows 8 Trial on the system, it's back to
> working without any errors in a live ubuntu environment. Not really sure
> what to make of this, aside from it not being a hardware problem.
>
> ** Attachment added: "dmesg-errors.txt"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1318218/+attachment/4296899/+files/dmesg-errors.txt
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