failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED on xu14.04 current

upgraded to new SSD with new cables and system is running into unresponsiveness up to 10 seconds
xubuntu 14.04 with current updates

dmesg -k
...
ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0xfc000 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
ata4.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
ata4.00: cmd 61/08:70:18:f0:f9/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 14 ncq 4096 out
         res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
ata4.00: status: { DRDY }
ata4.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
ata4.00: cmd 61/68:78:a8:2e:4e/00:00:02:00:00/40 tag 15 ncq 53248 out
         res 40/00:01:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
ata4.00: status: { DRDY }
ata4.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
ata4.00: cmd 61/08:80:20:f0:f9/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 16 ncq 4096 out
         res 40/00:01:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
ata4.00: status: { DRDY }
ata4.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
ata4.00: cmd 61/d0:88:c0:7f:44/01:00:00:00:00/40 tag 17 ncq 237568 out
         res 40/00:ff:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
ata4.00: status: { DRDY }
ata4.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
ata4.00: cmd 61/40:90:90:ec:f9/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 18 ncq 32768 out
         res 40/00:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
ata4.00: status: { DRDY }
ata4.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
ata4.00: cmd 60/40:98:b0:d7:28/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 19 ncq 32768 in
         res 40/00:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
ata4.00: status: { DRDY }
ata4: hard resetting link
ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata4.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
ata4.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
ata4.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
ata4.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
ata4.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
ata4.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
ata4: EH complete
...

I'll be looking through these posts & questions & solutions
http://help.lockergnome.com/linux/ata1-00-failed-command-READ-FPDMA-QUEUED--ftopict554072.html

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/device-reported-invalid-chs-sector-4175446341/

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/550559
invalid status

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1077718

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=147189

Is grub.cfg
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="libata.force=noncq"
the only fix at this time?

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS480/RS482/RS485 Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS4xx PCI Express Port [ext gfx]
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
00:1a.0 PCI bridge: ULi Electronics Inc. M5249 HTT to PCI Bridge
00:1c.0 USB controller: ULi Electronics Inc. USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.1 USB controller: ULi Electronics Inc. USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.2 USB controller: ULi Electronics Inc. USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.3 USB controller: ULi Electronics Inc. USB 2.0 Controller (rev 01)
00:1d.0 Audio device: ULi Electronics Inc. HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 ISA bridge: ULi Electronics Inc. M1575 South Bridge
00:1e.1 Bridge: ULi Electronics Inc. M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
00:1f.0 IDE interface: ULi Electronics Inc. M5229 IDE (rev c8)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: ULi Electronics Inc. ULi M5288 SATA (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G71 [GeForce 7900 GS] (rev a1)
02:12.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
02:13.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) [iOHCI-Lynx]
02:14.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)

grub2 is controlled by a clean install of zorin9 on another partition