Comment 10 for bug 301893

In my case, there were too much problem with nforce4 and SATA2 drive

the solution who works for me:
1-desactivate write cache for disks
sudo hdparm -W0 /dev/sdX
this will be automaticaly reconfigured or hardly stored in drive, no need to relaunch this command after reboot (not tested after a windows boot)

2-disable NCQ for disks:
echo 1 |sudo tee /sys/block/sdX/device/queue_depth
this need to be relaunch at each reboot, for that do:
sudo crontab -l
and write a line by disk
@reboot echo 1 >/sys/block/sdX/device/queue_depth

since I have made this 2 modification, I never get a sata freeze while transfering data.