Comment 38 for bug 219393

I didn't have the file, either. All you have to do is create the empty (and writable) file libata-options in /etc/modprobe.d/ and then open it with your favorite text editor and add "options libata ignore_hpa=0". That's the only line that needs to be in there.

Once you've done that, the "sudo update-initramfs -u" command is also required to make this work.