ChrisThompson
March 5th, 2010, 02:10 AM
Hi everyone, I've posted about this problem on a lot of similar threads and found nothing, so I'm creating a new one in the hopes of finally getting some answers.
Ubuntu 9.10 never detected my two, IDE-controlled, non-RAID SATA drives. I never bothered to make it until the PATA drive that was running karmic died. Now I'm trying to dual-boot with my XP install on those SATA drives, but I can't get ubuntu to recognize them.
Mobo: ASUS a8v-xe, North Bridge VIA K8T890, South Bridge VIA VT8251, Phoenix AwardBIOS
HDs: one SATA 3.0 40 gB Maxtor drive, and one SATA 3.0 500 gB WD drive. The drives are not RAID, and the BIOS lists them as IDE-controlled.
The install partitioner does not detect any drives. When I boot off of the live CD, neither GParted nor Disk utility detects them.
I have tried each of the following, with no luck:
-removing DMRAID, both in Synaptic and Terminal
-installing with 8.10, 9.10 txt-alternate, and 10.04 Beta
-booting in expert mode with txt-alternate CD and disabling RAID
-Changing drive controllers in BIOS to RAID or AHCI
-booting the liveCD as 'noapic' and 'nolapic'
On another thread, someone posted a script to detect HDs. This is what it read for me:
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=========================== Drive/Partition Info: =============================
no valid partition table found
blkid -c /dev/null: __________________________________________________ __________
Device UUID TYPE LABEL
/dev/loop0 squashfs
============================ "mount | grep ^/dev output: ===========================
Device Mount_Point Type Options
aufs / aufs (rw)
/dev/sr0 /cdrom iso9660 (rw)
/dev/loop0 /rofs squashfs (rw)
=======Devices which don't seem to have a corresponding hard drive==============
no block devices found
I'm running out of ideas and getting really, really frustrated. Can anyone offer any new suggestions?
Thank you so much for your help,
Chris.
Ubuntu 9.10 never detected my two, IDE-controlled, non-RAID SATA drives. I never bothered to make it until the PATA drive that was running karmic died. Now I'm trying to dual-boot with my XP install on those SATA drives, but I can't get ubuntu to recognize them.
Mobo: ASUS a8v-xe, North Bridge VIA K8T890, South Bridge VIA VT8251, Phoenix AwardBIOS
HDs: one SATA 3.0 40 gB Maxtor drive, and one SATA 3.0 500 gB WD drive. The drives are not RAID, and the BIOS lists them as IDE-controlled.
The install partitioner does not detect any drives. When I boot off of the live CD, neither GParted nor Disk utility detects them.
I have tried each of the following, with no luck:
-removing DMRAID, both in Synaptic and Terminal
-installing with 8.10, 9.10 txt-alternate, and 10.04 Beta
-booting in expert mode with txt-alternate CD and disabling RAID
-Changing drive controllers in BIOS to RAID or AHCI
-booting the liveCD as 'noapic' and 'nolapic'
On another thread, someone posted a script to detect HDs. This is what it read for me:
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=========================== Drive/Partition Info: =============================
no valid partition table found
blkid -c /dev/null: __________________________________________________ __________
Device UUID TYPE LABEL
/dev/loop0 squashfs
============================ "mount | grep ^/dev output: ===========================
Device Mount_Point Type Options
aufs / aufs (rw)
/dev/sr0 /cdrom iso9660 (rw)
/dev/loop0 /rofs squashfs (rw)
=======Devices which don't seem to have a corresponding hard drive==============
no block devices found
I'm running out of ideas and getting really, really frustrated. Can anyone offer any new suggestions?
Thank you so much for your help,
Chris.