Comment 106 for bug 84603

etrustco:
"I truly hope there's less people affected by these libata issues than it seems, or 7.10 will be a fiasco :-(
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It is also unfortunate that Ubuntu removed (most of?) the old IDE modules/drivers, thus impeding the option to simply blacklist the (corresponding) libata driver.."

I can confirm this. I'm not even using cutting edge hardware. Ubuntu 5.10 has fewer disk issues than 7.04 and 7.10. 7.10 is the worst. I get these freeze-up events, and after a lot of Googling and reading tried to force the system back to the old ide-driver, just to realize that the piix module isn't part of Gusty any more, and ide-generic doesn't give me DMA :-(