I did not notice your request before, but this bug is not an issue for me anymore.
On 2008-11-03, I reinstalled 8.10 without AHCI enabled in the bios and I did not encounter any freezes.
At this moment I'm running Karmic with 2.6.31-16-generic, still with AHCI disabled in the bios.
(The only, possible related, problem since Karmic is the inability to auto-mount all partitions after a hard reset.)
In reply to kernel-janitor on 2009-08-25
I did not notice your request before, but this bug is not an issue for me anymore.
On 2008-11-03, I reinstalled 8.10 without AHCI enabled in the bios and I did not encounter any freezes.
At this moment I'm running Karmic with 2.6.31-16-generic, still with AHCI disabled in the bios.
(The only, possible related, problem since Karmic is the inability to auto-mount all partitions after a hard reset.)