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SuperDaveUMO
December 6th, 2009, 09:41 PM
I have an Intel 64Bit machine with 2GB of RAM, 1 640GB hard disk and 2 identical 1.5TB disks.

I am using Ubuntu 9.10 64Bit Alternate (I am going to use software RAID). When I install the OS fresh (no updates or installs), I see all three drives in the partitioner during install. I install Ubuntu to the 640GB (formatting to Ext4) and reboot. All goes well and I see all three drives under "Places". Of course the update manager comes up. I update everything (no additional repos or sources were added) and reboot. Now, it boots up off the 640GB drive just like before but recognizes only ONE 1.5TB drive!

I look in /dev and where there used to be /sda /sdb and /sdc there is only /sda and /sdb. /sdc is completely missing. If I boot into the live CD again, all three drives are there as well as if I boot into GParted.

Just as a note, all three drives are formatted with Ext4. With a fresh install (no updates), I can access all three drives.

I'm pretty sure this is from an official update that has happened in the last two weeks as I had this system running with all three drives up until very recently (last two weeks or so).

Any help with either the update issue or how to get my /dev/sdc drive back would be very appreciated. Thanks!

xrizz
December 6th, 2009, 11:15 PM
I think I am experiencing the same issue with 8.04 64 bit and the kernel update that ran this week. Everything was going well up until this weeks update, now I can't detect my SATA drives connected to southbridge. I'm wondering if this is hardware related...

Chris

SuperDaveUMO
December 7th, 2009, 02:19 AM
If I were a betting man, I'd say this was a software bug that was introduced in the latest updates. If it were hardware, then I wouldn't be able to See everything during a fresh install (no updates). If you can, you might try that; a fresh install with 8.04. If you get your drives back, then you know it's the update.

SuperDaveUMO
December 8th, 2009, 06:14 AM
I decided to give your thought a try. I have 6 SATA channels on my motherboard and I am only using 3. I have never had a problem with the 640GB so I didn't touch that one. I moved both the 1.5TB drives to other unused channels.

I updated and, voila, it works! But I did notice there were more updates this time around. So I can't be absolutely sure it was a hardware thing or if there was a new update that resolved this issue.