Comment 5 for bug 874727

ATA bus errors are another indication of hardware problems. As an example:

Nov 6 12:29:53 ubuntu kernel: [ 297.462670] ata1.01: failed command: WRITE DMA
Nov 6 12:29:53 ubuntu kernel: [ 297.462680] ata1.01: cmd ca/00:90:20:5c:46/00:00:00:00:00/f4 tag 0 dma 73728 out
Nov 6 12:29:53 ubuntu kernel: [ 297.462682] res 51/84:48:68:5c:46/00:00:00:00:00/f4 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
Nov 6 12:29:53 ubuntu kernel: [ 297.462686] ata1.01: status: { DRDY ERR }
Nov 6 12:29:53 ubuntu kernel: [ 297.462689] ata1.01: error: { ICRC ABRT }