Comment 13 for bug 157650

No, even worse. The frequency of the errors was so high that it was again impossible to do work on the computer. I decided to try Hardy Heron Alpha 1, to see if a newer kernel would solve the problem. (I read somewhere that 2.6.23 might do that.)
I tried the upgrade twice, and twice the ata errors made the upgrade freeze, and leave the system in a more or less unusable state. First time I could recover it, using a backup. Second time even that would not work.
So I tried a fresh install of Hardy Heron. But the installer used dialogs that were larger than the display, so the next/back/cancel/finish buttons were invisible. So I just finished a fresh install of Gutsy... My guess is the ata errors will slowly come back after a few weeks (as they did since about april, shortly after the upgrade to Feisty).