So it is actually your bios that foolishly enables the HPA. The ubuntu kernel used to be patched to disable it during boot ( to work around these silly biosen ) but doesn't seem to be doing so in your case. You can add "libata.ignore_hpa=1" to your kernel command line to disable it and that should get you going. The fact that it is no longer happening automatically though appears to be a regression in the kernel so I'm reassigning it there.
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