Comment 26 for bug 282536

The reporter ceased responding as:
a) No one with the ability to fix the bug has looked at it
b) the bug didn't get fixed
c) it clearly has a lot of "me too" responses
d) it was confirmed in mainline before the useless "upgrade to the new version of ubuntu and then bother us if it's still broken" message
e) the reporter has come to the conclusion launchpad has become a place of bugs to languages and be ignored, rather than be fixed
f) the pata drives were removed and the system no longer runs Ubuntu so I could have a working system, in a timely manner.

I wish all thoses stilll experiencing the bug the best of luck resolving it - but I suspect where possible, replacing the hardware with non-pata versions would be the most expedient work around, as I honestly no longer expect this to be fixed.