Comment 37 for bug 550559

I'm experiencing a similar issue. The system hangs periodically for about a minute while the HD resets.

Environment:
Ubuntu running in a Virtual Box VM running on WIndows 7 64bit.
Asus G53JW Laptop
Intel X25 SSD

Log excerpts:
Jan 17 14:47:58 vm rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.2.0" x-pid="578" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] rsyslogd was HUPed, type 'lightweight'.
Jan 17 14:48:32 vm kernel: [ 1513.120252] ata3: hard resetting link
Jan 17 14:48:33 vm kernel: [ 1513.470345] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
Jan 17 14:48:33 vm kernel: [ 1513.471232] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
Jan 17 14:48:33 vm kernel: [ 1513.471241] ata3.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
Jan 17 14:48:33 vm kernel: [ 1513.471255] ata3: EH complete

[ 1513.120200] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[ 1513.120210] ata3.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
[ 1513.120222] ata3.00: cmd 60/08:00:30:66:4c/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 in
[ 1513.120224] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/40 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 1513.120230] ata3.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 1513.120252] ata3: hard resetting link
[ 1513.470345] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 1513.471232] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 1513.471241] ata3.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
[ 1513.471255] ata3: EH complete