Comment 135 for bug 75295

In Ubuntu 8.10 (and in 8.04 for that matter) the problem still appears, but instead of being complete system freeze, just a kernel message is shown, and the kernel continues. When it happens in startup I've noticed it's a bit slower starting ubuntu, but other than that, I haven't noticed anything else. I haven't tried burning any cds/dvds because I don't want to waste any cd. This is the kind of message I get:

[ 33.908059] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[ 33.908112] ata1.00: cmd ca/00:08:38:18:b8/00:00:00:00:00/e1 tag 0 dma 4096 out
[ 33.908113] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 33.908199] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 33.908275] ata1: soft resetting link
[ 34.088531] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 34.088542] ata1: EH complete