Comment 1 for bug 137470

Looks like the same here. Dell Latitude D830 with a Hitachi disk.

hdparm -I /dev/sda:

ATA device, with non-removable media
        Model Number: Hitachi HTS722012K9A300
        Serial Number: 070626DP0300DRG0ZHYA
        Firmware Revision: DCCOC54P
        Transport: Serial, ATA8-AST, SATA 1.0a, SATA II Extensions, SATA Rev 2.5; Revision: ATA8-AST T13 Project D1697 Revision 0b

dmesg during boot:
[ 51.024000] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x2 SAct 0x7ff5 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[ 51.024000] ata1.00: (spurious completions during NCQ issue=0x0 SAct=0x7ff5 FIS=005040a1:00000002)
[ 51.024000] ata1.00: cmd 60/08:00:1f:ff:02/00:00:08:00:00/40 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in
[ 51.024000] res 50/00:08:4f:00:98/00:00:02:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[ 51.024000] ata1.00: cmd 60/08:10:87:5c:36/00:00:02:00:00/40 tag 2 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in
[ 51.024000] res 50/00:08:4f:00:98/00:00:02:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[ 51.024000] ata1.00: cmd 60/08:20:07:02:34/00:00:02:00:00/40 tag 4 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in
[ 51.024000] res 50/00:08:4f:00:98/00:00:02:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[ 51.024000] ata1.00: cmd 60/08:28:57:00:59/00:00:08:00:00/40 tag 5 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in
[ 51.024000] res 50/00:08:4f:00:98/00:00:02:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[ 51.024000] ata1.00: cmd 60/88:30:ef:78:3b/00:00:02:00:00/40 tag 6 cdb 0x0 data 69632 in
[ 51.024000] res 50/00:08:4f:00:98/00:00:02:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[ 51.024000] ata1.00: cmd 60/08:38:c7:00:48/00:00:02:00:00/40 tag 7 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in
[ 51.024000] res 50/00:08:4f:00:98/00:00:02:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[ 51.024000] ata1.00: cmd 60/08:40:5f:50:9d/00:00:01:00:00/40 tag 8 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in
[ 51.024000] res 50/00:08:4f:00:98/00:00:02:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[ 51.024000] ata1.00: cmd 60/08:48:b7:52:9d/00:00:01:00:00/40 tag 9 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in
[ 51.024000] res 50/00:08:4f:00:98/00:00:02:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[ 51.024000] ata1.00: cmd 60/08:50:bf:10:9e/00:00:01:00:00/40 tag 10 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in
[ 51.024000] res 50/00:08:4f:00:98/00:00:02:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[ 51.024000] ata1.00: cmd 60/08:58:c7:10:9e/00:00:01:00:00/40 tag 11 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in
[ 51.024000] res 50/00:08:4f:00:98/00:00:02:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[ 51.024000] ata1.00: cmd 60/08:60:cf:10:9e/00:00:01:00:00/40 tag 12 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in
[ 51.024000] res 50/00:08:4f:00:98/00:00:02:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[ 51.024000] ata1.00: cmd 60/20:68:d7:10:9e/00:00:01:00:00/40 tag 13 cdb 0x0 data 16384 in
[ 51.024000] res 50/00:08:4f:00:98/00:00:02:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[ 51.024000] ata1.00: cmd 60/08:70:4f:00:98/00:00:02:00:00/40 tag 14 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in
[ 51.024000] res 50/00:08:4f:00:98/00:00:02:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[ 51.340000] ata1: soft resetting port
[ 51.512000] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 51.512000] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 51.512000] ata1: EH complete
[ 51.512000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors (120034 MB)
[ 51.512000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 51.512000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 51.512000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA