Comment 21 for bug 231575

I have the same problem with a motherboard on VIA chipset. The same exact symptoms with the errors starting to happen after a while and then DVD becomes useless. Here is a sample from dmesg output:

[59854.156089] ata4.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[59854.156109] ata4: soft resetting link
[59854.368376] ata4.00: configured for PIO0
[59854.368398] ata4: EH complete
[59897.660057] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[59897.660070] ata4.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
[59897.660071] cdb 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[59897.660072] res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[59897.660076] ata4.00: status: { DRDY }
[59897.660095] ata4: soft resetting link
[59897.872383] ata4.00: configured for PIO0
[59897.872396] ata4: EH complete

This happens with intrepid and hardy