My new ASUS laptop periodically takes a 30 second or so nap. The disk diagnostics show no problem, and its running on AC. Here's a snip from the log. Suggestions would be appreciated.
Mar 26 09:49:47 mtranch-mobile kernel: ata2.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen Mar 26 09:49:47 mtranch-mobile kernel: ata2.01: (BMDMA stat 0x64) Mar 26 09:49:47 mtranch-mobile kernel: ata2.01: tag 0 cmd 0xa0 Emask 0x4 stat 0x40 err 0x0 (timeout) Mar 26 09:49:54 mtranch-mobile kernel: ata2: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0) Mar 26 09:50:17 mtranch-mobile kernel: ata2: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0) Mar 26 09:50:17 mtranch-mobile kernel: ata2: soft resetting port Mar 26 09:50:18 mtranch-mobile kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100 Mar 26 09:50:18 mtranch-mobile kernel: ata2.01: configured for UDMA/33 Mar 26 09:50:18 mtranch-mobile kernel: ata2: EH complete Mar 26 09:50:18 mtranch-mobile kernel: SCSI device sda: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB) Mar 26 09:50:18 mtranch-mobile kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Mar 26 09:50:18 mtranch-mobile kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back Mar 26 09:50:18 mtranch-mobile kernel: SCSI device sda: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB) Mar 26 09:50:18 mtranch-mobile kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Mar 26 09:50:18 mtranch-mobile kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back Mar 26 10:00:07 mtranch-mobile ntpd[2974]: synchronized to 192.83.249.31, stratum 2