bug in sata-driver

1.) Start the installation from the LiveCD (Ubuntu 6.10) or just start gparted stand-alone from the LiveCD (Ubuntu 6.10) on a Sony Vaio VGN-S580BH. The hardware of the laptop looks like this according to lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
06:05.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller
06:05.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7x20 1394a-2000 OHCI Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Controller
06:05.3 Mass storage controller: <pci_lookup_name: buffer too small>
06:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller Mobile (rev 03)
06:0b.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection (rev 05)

2.) Setup a partition-table like:

/dev/sda1 ext3 100 MBytes
/dev/sda2 ext3 4 GBytes
/dev/sda3 ext3 4 GBytes
/dev/sda4 extended 85 GBytes
/dev/sda5 ext3 30 GBytes
/dev/sda6 ext3 10 GBytes
/dev/sda7 ext3 4 GBytes
/dev/sda8 ext3 20 GBytes
/dev/sda9 ext3 21 GBytes

3.) Once hitting "Apply" in gparted it hangs and dmesg reports:

[17180982.272000] ata1: handling error/timeout
[17180982.272000] ata1: port reset, p_is 0 is 0 pis 0 cmd 4017 tf 80 ss 113 se 0
[17180982.272000] BUG: warning at drivers/scsi/ahci.c:1283/ahci_host_intr()
[17180982.272000] <f885fcbf> ahci_interrupt+0x1ef/0x200 [ahci] <c0149323> handle_IRQ_event+0x33/0x60
[17180982.272000] <c01493ed> __do_IRQ+0x9d/0x110 <c0122e9b> printk+0x1b/0x20
[17180982.272000] <c0105c89> do_IRQ+0x19/0x30 <c010408a> common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
[17180982.272000] <c02daad9> _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x9/0x10 <f8860048> ahci_eng_timeout+0x78/0xa0 [ahci]
[17180982.272000] <f88c1ef0> scsi_error_handler+0x0/0xc90 [scsi_mod] <f88acf5f> ata_scsi_error+0x5f/0x130 [libata]
[17180982.272000] <f88c1fc3> scsi_error_handler+0xd3/0xc90 [scsi_mod] <c011c930> complete+0x40/0x60
[17180982.272000] <f88c1ef0> scsi_error_handler+0x0/0xc90 [scsi_mod] <c0135f8b> kthread+0xab/0xe0
[17180982.272000] <c0135ee0> kthread+0x0/0xe0 <c0101005> kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x10
[17180982.272000] ata1: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
[17180982.272000] sda: Current: sense key: No Sense
[17180982.272000] Additional sense: No additional sense information
[17180982.272000] Info fld=0xf39d4

4.) It is impossible to install Ubuntu 6.10 on such a system, although the normal system operates flawless, if run only from the LiveCD.