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I agree with madbiologist, although I understand that in some extend the
same error (bug) could be a result of different hardware configurations,
it all depends on the clarity and how fine grained the report itself is.

Something like my screen turns black sometimes without any back trace or
apport report is useless, people shouting they encounter the same on
that particular bug without any useful inside makes absolutely no sense.
So I agree in this case people should file a new report.

Reporting your findings on a bug report from someone else clearly stating the problem, where some module breaks down in conditions we all can reproduce, seems logical to me.
We all can assume that the more specific the report gets, people with enough experience identifying the same issue are likely to encounter the same thing and help out identify the exact issue. They didn't get to this report with no reason.

In this particular case the correlation is quite clear and seems to be
identified as a Marvell SATA driver misbehaving which, in combination
with VT-d and the IOMMU kernel module, results in timeouts and not
detected storage devices. IMHO resubmitting this bug will be less useful
then helping identify it by users how encounter it as well. Especially
since it has a bug report on kernel.org stating the same thing. It also
ups the heat of this bug making it more important.

We all can agree on some thing though, we are all here to help out
making Linux better, so please remain focused doing just that. :)

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Title:
  Marvell SATA Controller. Problem booting and detecting HDDs in kernel
  3.2.0.

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  While HDDs conected to my SB950 controller are detected, ones
  connected to the Marvell 88SE9172 Controller are not, also causing a
  significant delay in boot times. This was also present previously when
  when I used kernel 3.0.0 in LinuxMint 12. The affected drives are
  still able to be booted from and recognized within Windows 7.

  ## dmesg results for delayed period:
  [    6.908078] ata9: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
  [    6.908948] ata9.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x80)
  [   12.392060] ata10: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
  [   12.393795] ata10.00: failed to IDENTIFY (device reports invalid type, err_mask=0x0)
  [   17.392075] ata9: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
  [   17.392958] ata9.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x80)
  [   17.392962] ata9: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
  [   22.876062] ata10: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
  [   22.884055] ata9: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
  [   22.884926] ata9.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x80)
  [   28.376054] ata9: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)

  I'm having a similar issue to bug #260543, "JMicron SATA Controller.
  Problem booting with kernel 2.6.24-19. Boots fine with kernel
  2.6.22-14"  [
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/260543 ].

  WORKAROUND: Disabled IOMMU in the BIOS.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: linux-image-3.2.0-23-generic 3.2.0-23.36
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  AudioDevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC1:  blairfus   1818 F.... pulseaudio
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  blairfus   1818 F.... pulseaudio
  CRDA: Error: command ['iw', 'reg', 'get'] failed with exit code 1: nl80211 not found.
  Card0.Amixer.info:
   Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xfdff4000 irq 16'
     Mixer name	: 'Realtek ALC889'
     Components	: 'HDA:10ec0889,1458a132,00100004'
     Controls      : 46
     Simple ctrls  : 22
  Card1.Amixer.info:
   Card hw:1 'Generic'/'HD-Audio Generic at 0xfddfc000 irq 46'
     Mixer name	: 'ATI R6xx HDMI'
     Components	: 'HDA:1002aa01,00aa0100,00100200'
     Controls      : 6
     Simple ctrls  : 1
  Card1.Amixer.values:
   Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
     Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
     Playback channels: Mono
     Mono: Playback [on]
  Date: Sun May 27 12:49:54 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
  IwConfig:
   lo        no wireless extensions.

   eth0      no wireless extensions.
  MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-990FXA-UD5
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB: 0 VESA VGA
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-23-generic root=UUID=487183dc-39a8-473b-9ccd-b61dae790470 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   linux-restricted-modules-3.2.0-23-generic N/A
   linux-backports-modules-3.2.0-23-generic  N/A
   linux-firmware                            1.79
  RfKill:

  SourcePackage: linux
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 03/30/2012
  dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: F7
  dmi.board.name: GA-990FXA-UD5
  dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF7:bd03/30/2012:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnGA-990FXA-UD5:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnGA-990FXA-UD5:rvr:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: GA-990FXA-UD5
  dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

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