Tonight I was installing Ubuntu 8.04 on an old PIII system when I came across an odd error:
ata1.00: exception Emask 0×0 SAct 0×0 SErr 0×0 action
0×2 frozen
After some googling, I found that I was not alone. After looking through a bunch of sites I came to this one (Ubuntu forums rock!).
It turns out that having your jumpers/cables setup the wrong way will cause this error. I unplugged my CD Drive and my HDD. I then changed my HDD to be master and my CD Drive to be slave. I replaced the IDE cable and what do you know…everything worked!
Hopefully this helps others! Be sure to visit the Ubuntu forums often. They are a great source of information sharing.
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