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    Ubuntu doens't recognize new SATA drives

    Hi, i just added two new SATA hard drives (500 GB, and 1 TB). Also i added in a DVD -RW SATA drive.

    I checked my mobo bios and it recognizes them just fine. however, Ubuntu doesn't seem to see them at all, and when i try to install (by booting from the live CD) it seems to not recognize them either. Please help im going insane!

    Thanks,
    JuicyJuice

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    Re: Ubuntu doens't recognize new SATA drives

    What designators are you using to find these drives? What's the output of df showing the original drive?
    cmn

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    Re: Ubuntu doens't recognize new SATA drives

    Most likely ubuntu does "see" them but is not mounting them because they have not been added to fstab.

    Please run this command and paste the results:

    Code:
    $ sudo fdisk -l

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    Re: Ubuntu doens't recognize new SATA drives

    juicyjuice@juicyjuice-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
    [sudo] password for juicyjuice:

    Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80060424192 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9733 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0x1ffb1ffa

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/sda1 * 1 9331 74951226 83 Linux
    /dev/sda2 9332 9733 3229065 5 Extended
    /dev/sda5 9332 9733 3229033+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
    juicyjuice@juicyjuice-desktop:~$

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    Re: Ubuntu doens't recognize new SATA drives

    Check the contents of your partition with


    more /etc/fstab

    It should give you something like this

    # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
    proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
    /dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
    /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2
    /dev/hda3 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
    /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 ext3 defaults 0 0
    /dev/hda7 none swap sw 0 0
    /dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
    /dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
    /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ext3 defaults 0 0
    agarzon@ferengi:~$

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    Re: Ubuntu doens't recognize new SATA drives

    Quote Originally Posted by agarzon View Post
    Check the contents of your partition with


    more /etc/fstab

    It should give you something like this

    # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
    proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
    /dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
    /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2
    /dev/hda3 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
    /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 ext3 defaults 0 0
    /dev/hda7 none swap sw 0 0
    /dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
    /dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
    /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ext3 defaults 0 0
    agarzon@ferengi:~$
    i did this command and got:

    # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
    proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
    # /dev/sda1
    UUID=9dcc3ff9-0669-484d-86f5-30d52226fbc6 / ext3 relatime,error
    s=remount-ro 0 1
    # /dev/sda5
    UUID=73714163-2392-4163-a996-bdc1046b2894 none swap sw
    0 0
    /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
    ## usbfs is the USB group in fstab file:
    none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=124,devmode=664 0 0

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    Re: Ubuntu doens't recognize new SATA drives

    Quote Originally Posted by -=juicyjuice=- View Post
    juicyjuice@juicyjuice-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
    [sudo] password for juicyjuice:

    Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80060424192 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9733 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0x1ffb1ffa

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/sda1 * 1 9331 74951226 83 Linux
    /dev/sda2 9332 9733 3229065 5 Extended
    /dev/sda5 9332 9733 3229033+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
    juicyjuice@juicyjuice-desktop:~$
    All right, fdisk does not see the drives. Have they been partitioned? Run gparted to check:

    Code:
    $ sudo apt-get install gparted 
    $ gksudo gparted
    Once in gparted, go to gparted->devices and see if your drives appear there. If they do, you can use gparted to partition them. BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN DOING THIS since if you accidentally repartition the wrong drive you will irrevocably lose all your data.

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    Re: Ubuntu doens't recognize new SATA drives

    i installed gparted and ran it, refreshed to find new devices and still, all it shows is my 80 GB HD

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    Re: Ubuntu doens't recognize new SATA drives

    This idea may seem desperate, so please if some of the experts call it stupid please let me know in a gentle manner

    Since Ubnutu can't see the drives, neither from the command line (fdisk or in fstab), nor can gparted see them, try this

    Boot from the Ubuntu live CD, then check if gparted (System/Administration/PartitionEditor) sees them. If it does, format the drives from there and reboot the system. As it was mentioned earlier, make sure you don't screw up your current 80GB drive.
    Last edited by agarzon; February 17th, 2009 at 02:24 AM.

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    Re: Ubuntu doens't recognize new SATA drives

    Does your BIOS have an "AHCI" or "RAID" option for your SATA drives? If so, enable AHCI, or if you can't do that, try enabling RAID. Then when you boot the Live CD, at the main menu press F6 for boot options, and then to the boot line add:
    Code:
    pci=nomsi
    Then use the "Try Ubuntu without making any changes" option. Let me know if that works for you or not.

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