I've got a hp 510 notebook pc. Back when it was new, it was shipped with open-dos. So, it was running with Linux since Gutsy Gibbon and, up to now, had only some difficulties to be solved with the southbridge that were working out of the box in Hardy or Jackalope.
It has got an Intel Celeron M 360 1.4 Mhz Processor with 400 Mhz frontside-bus and Intel 910 GML Chipset with Intel-ICH-6m SB.
The HD is a IBM/Hitachi 40GB 4200RPM 2MB Cache Travelstar HTS421240H9AT00. 

When I upgraded to Karmic about a year ago, I had the problem described above. So, I reinstalled Jackalope where the hardware worked without problems.
Now I want to pass on my laptop as I bought a new one. A test with the desktop-CD made no obvious problems (it's a HD-failure that might occur more often when the program is installed on the HD and not on CD, ha-ha). This and the fact that it's easier to do so is why I tried to install Lucid.

Despite I implemented the workaround for Lucid given above, the device produces the following output when running dmesg:


[    0.271537] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: version 2.13
[    0.271555]   alloc irq_desc for 16 on node -1
[    0.271559]   alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
[    0.271567] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[    0.271628] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: setting latency timer to 64
[    0.277201] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[    0.282766] scsi0 : ata_piix
[    0.282911] scsi1 : ata_piix
[    0.283654] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0x3580 irq 14
[    0.283659] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0x3588 irq 15
[    0.284177] Fixed MDIO Bus: probed


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[    0.489196] ata1.00: ATA-7: HTS421240H9AT00, HACOA70S, max UDMA/100
[    0.489204] ata1.00: 78140160 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 
[    0.489256] ata1.01: ATAPI: TSSTcorpCDW/DVD TS-L462D, HS02, max MWDMA2
[    0.548617] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[    0.556926] ACPI: Battery Slot [C15E] (battery present)
[    0.580432] ata1.01: configured for MWDMA2

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[ 158.816041] ata1: lost interrupt (Status 0x58)
[  158.820017] ata1: drained 32768 bytes to clear DRQ.
[  158.909721] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[  158.909728] sr 0:0:1:0: CDB: Test Unit Ready: 00 00 00 00 00 00
[  158.909744] ata1.01: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0
[  158.909746]          res 58/00:01:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[  158.909750] ata1.01: status: { DRDY DRQ }
[  158.909787] ata1: soft resetting link
[  159.128657] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[  159.160312] ata1.01: configured for MWDMA2
[  159.179141] ata1: EH complete
[ 1113.785054] atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xe0 on isa0060/serio0).
[ 1113.785060] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e060 <keycode>' to make it known.
[ 2920.000474] ata1: lost interrupt (Status 0x58)
[ 2920.004015] ata1: drained 32768 bytes to clear DRQ.
[ 2920.093417] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[ 2920.093423] ata1.01: ATAPI check failed (ireason=0x1 bytes=8)
[ 2920.093429] sr 0:0:1:0: CDB: Get event status notification: 4a 01 00 00 10 00 00 00 08 00
[ 2920.093448] ata1.01: cmd a0/00:00:00:08:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 pio 16392 in
[ 2920.093450]          res 58/00:01:00:08:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[ 2920.093455] ata1.01: status: { DRDY DRQ }

aso...


This on and on freezing is a little bit annoying. I'd be thankful for any advice how to get rid of that issue; installing Hardy or Jacky would be lots of more work than trying to fiddle around with some sophisticated approach to solve this issue by hand...

Thanks in advance for any hint :-)