How to triage "COMRESET failed" error at startup

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I recently switched my laptop over to using an 80 GB Intel X25-M (generation 1, no TRIM support) solid-state disk.

At kernel boot (before init), I get the following error message: "ATA1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)"

It appears three times, one at a 10s delay, another at 20s and the last one at 60s. After that, the system boots fine (and very fast!) and everything appears to work fine.

I'd like to know what "COMRESET failed" means and how I can eliminate this 60s lag on startup.