> ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xB007 > ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xA887 I once had similar error messages, coming from a onboard Promise controler. I contacted Alan Cox - who is a kernel developper - about that and his answer was the following: « > ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xE407 > ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xE607 > ATA: abnormal status 0x8 on port 0xE086E31C Probably fine - the code right now is excessively verbose about things it thinks odd. »