Now that I've got a little more time on my hands, I've updated and done some bugfixing on my patch to quirk ICH devices over from PIIX-compatibility mode to AHCI mode. It turns out that ICH8 is a little different to ICH7, and needs an extra bit to be set. Without that being done, the AHCI BAR would still be programmed as i/o ports. Interpreting this as mmio space let to unsurprising crashes. With a bit of luck, this should also fix the "My CD drive is no longer there" issue - you'll still need to load ata_piix in order to access it, but make sure you do it after ahci has bound to the sata controller.
Patch against 2.6.24 is here - let me know if it works for you.
(Context: AHCI provides support for various features that the PIIX compatible mode doesn't, including link-level power saving. This is potentially beneficial for mobile users)
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