IDE devices not recognized

**RRockon** · November 29th, 2009

I've recently installed 9.10 on my system, along side an existing Windows. Everything seems to work pretty well, except that ubuntu doesn't see any of the IDE devices I have on this machine, which windows does see.

This was already an issue with the installation, I was unable to install or even boot from a livecd. It just kicked me into a 'busybox'. I had to use an USB device to install and now that it's working I can't access my CD/DVD drive or my secondary (IDE) Hard-disk. My primary one is a SATA and works fine.

I'm relatively new to linux/ubuntu and I have no clue what to do. Any help would be much appreciated!

**chrisfu** · November 29th, 2009

Originally Posted by RRockon

I've recently installed 9.10 on my system, along side an existing Windows. Everything seems to work pretty well, except that ubuntu doesn't see any of the IDE devices I have on this machine, which windows does see.

This was already an issue with the installation, I was unable to install or even boot from a livecd. It just kicked me into a 'busybox'. I had to use an USB device to install and now that it's working I can't access my CD/DVD drive or my secondary (IDE) Hard-disk. My primary one is a SATA and works fine.

I'm relatively new to linux/ubuntu and I have no clue what to do. Any help would be much appreciated!

What's the output of 'sudo lspci' and 'sudo lshw'?

**RRockon** · November 29th, 2009

lspci

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub to ESI Port (rev 12)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 12)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 12)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 7 (rev 12)
00:14.0 PIC: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub System Management Registers (rev 12)
00:14.1 PIC: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub GPIO and Scratch Pad Registers (rev 12)
00:14.2 PIC: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub Control Status and RAS Registers (rev 12)
00:14.3 PIC: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub Throttle Registers (rev 12)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 1
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 2
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 6
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. Device 3403
02:00.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. PATA IDE Host Controller (rev a0)
03:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB360 AHCI Controller (rev 02)
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GT] (rev a1)

lshw

Code:

shredder
    description: Desktop Computer
    product: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
    vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
    version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
    serial: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
    width: 32 bits
    capabilities: smbios-2.5 dmi-2.5
    configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop uuid=00020003-0004-0005-0006-000700080009
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: X58 Extreme
       vendor: ASRock
       physical id: 0
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
          physical id: 0
          version: P1.30 (07/16/2009)
          size: 64KiB
          capacity: 960KiB
          capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification netboot
     *-cpu
          description: CPU
          product: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU         920  @ 2.67GHz
          vendor: Intel Corp.
          physical id: 4
          bus info: cpu@0
          version: 6.10.5
          serial: 0001-06A5-0000-0000-0000-0000
          slot: CPUSocket
          size: 2400MHz
          capacity: 2400MHz
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 133MHz
          capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe rdtscp x86-64 constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts xtopology tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm ida tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid cpufreq
          configuration: id=1
        *-cache:0
             description: L1 cache
             physical id: 5
             slot: L1-Cache
             size: 128KiB
             capacity: 128KiB
             capabilities: internal write-back data
        *-cache:1
             description: L2 cache
             physical id: 6
             slot: L2-Cache
             size: 1MiB
             capacity: 1MiB
             capabilities: internal write-back unified
        *-cache:2
             description: L3 cache
             physical id: 7
             slot: L3-Cache
             size: 8MiB
             capacity: 8MiB
             capabilities: internal write-back unified
        *-logicalcpu:0
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 1.1
             width: 64 bits
             capabilities: logical
        *-logicalcpu:1
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 1.2
             width: 64 bits
             capabilities: logical
        *-logicalcpu:2
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 1.3
             width: 64 bits
             capabilities: logical
        *-logicalcpu:3
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 1.4
             width: 64 bits
             capabilities: logical
        *-logicalcpu:4
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 1.5
             width: 64 bits
             capabilities: logical
        *-logicalcpu:5
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 1.6
             width: 64 bits
             capabilities: logical
        *-logicalcpu:6
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 1.7
             width: 64 bits
             capabilities: logical
        *-logicalcpu:7
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 1.8
             width: 64 bits
             capabilities: logical
        *-logicalcpu:8
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 1.9
             width: 64 bits
             capabilities: logical
        *-logicalcpu:9
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 1.a
             width: 64 bits
             capabilities: logical
        *-logicalcpu:10
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 1.b
             width: 64 bits
             capabilities: logical
        *-logicalcpu:11
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 1.c
             width: 64 bits
             capabilities: logical
        *-logicalcpu:12
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 1.d
             width: 64 bits
             capabilities: logical
        *-logicalcpu:13
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 1.e
             width: 64 bits
             capabilities: logical
        *-logicalcpu:14
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 1.f
             width: 64 bits
             capabilities: logical
        *-logicalcpu:15
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 1.10
             width: 64 bits
             capabilities: logical
     *-memory
          description: System Memory
          physical id: f
          slot: System board or motherboard
          size: 6GiB
        *-bank:0
             description: DIMM 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
             product: CM3X2G1600C9
             vendor: Corsair
             physical id: 0
             serial: 00000000
             slot: DIMM0
             size: 2GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 1333MHz (0.8ns)
        *-bank:1
             description: DIMM 1333 MHz (0.8 ns) [empty]
             vendor: Manufacturer01
             physical id: 1
             serial: 00000000
             slot: DIMM1
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 1333MHz (0.8ns)
        *-bank:2
             description: DIMM 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
             vendor: Manufacturer02
             physical id: 2
             serial: 00000000
             slot: DIMM2
             size: 2GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 1333MHz (0.8ns)
        *-bank:3
             description: DIMM 1333 MHz (0.8 ns) [empty]
             product: CM3X2G1600C9
             vendor: Corsair
             physical id: 3
             serial: 00000000
             slot: DIMM3
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 1333MHz (0.8ns)
        *-bank:4
             description: DIMM 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
             vendor: Manufacturer04
             physical id: 4
             serial: 00000000
             slot: DIMM4
             size: 2GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 1333MHz (0.8ns)
        *-bank:5
             description: DIMM 1333 MHz (0.8 ns) [empty]
             vendor: Manufacturer05
             physical id: 5
             serial: 00000000
             slot: DIMM5
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 1333MHz (0.8ns)
     *-pci
          description: Host bridge
          product: X58 I/O Hub to ESI Port
          vendor: Intel Corporation
          physical id: 100
          bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
          version: 12
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
        *-pci:0
             description: PCI bridge
             product: 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 1
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
             version: 12
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci msi pciexpress pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
             resources: irq:24
        *-pci:1
             description: PCI bridge
             product: 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 3
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 3
             bus info: pci@0000:00:03.0
             version: 12
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci msi pciexpress pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
             resources: irq:25 ioport:e000(size=4096) memory:f9000000-fbefffff ioport:d0000000(size=268435456)
           *-display
                description: VGA compatible controller
                product: G73 [GeForce 7600 GT]
                vendor: nVidia Corporation
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
                version: a1
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom
                configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
                resources: irq:16 memory:fa000000-faffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff(prefetchable) memory:f9000000-f9ffffff ioport:ec00(size=128) memory:fb000000-fb01ffff(prefetchable)
        *-pci:2
             description: PCI bridge
             product: 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 7
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 7
             bus info: pci@0000:00:07.0
             version: 12
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci msi pciexpress pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
             resources: irq:26
        *-generic:0 UNCLAIMED
             description: PIC
             product: 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub System Management Registers
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 14
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.0
             version: 12
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pciexpress cap_list
             configuration: latency=0
        *-generic:1 UNCLAIMED
             description: PIC
             product: 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub GPIO and Scratch Pad Registers
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 14.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.1
             version: 12
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pciexpress cap_list
             configuration: latency=0
        *-generic:2 UNCLAIMED
             description: PIC
             product: 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub Control Status and RAS Registers
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 14.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.2
             version: 12
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pciexpress cap_list
             configuration: latency=0
        *-generic:3 UNCLAIMED
             description: PIC
             product: 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub Throttle Registers
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 14.3
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.3
             version: 12
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             configuration: latency=0
        *-usb:0
             description: USB Controller
             product: 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1a
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1a.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:16 ioport:8400(size=32)
        *-usb:1
             description: USB Controller
             product: 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1a.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1a.1
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:21 ioport:8480(size=32)
        *-usb:2
             description: USB Controller
             product: 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1a.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1a.2
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:19 ioport:8800(size=32)
        *-usb:3
             description: USB Controller
             product: 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1a.7
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1a.7
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm debug bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:18 memory:f8cf6000-f8cf63ff
        *-multimedia
             description: Audio device
             product: 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1b
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
             version: 00
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0
             resources: irq:22 memory:f8cf8000-f8cfbfff
        *-pci:3
             description: PCI bridge
             product: 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 1
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1c
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
             resources: irq:27 ioport:d000(size=4096) memory:f8f00000-f8ffffff
           *-storage
                description: SATA controller
                product: JMB360 AHCI Controller
                vendor: JMicron Technology Corp.
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
                version: 02
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: storage pm pciexpress bus_master cap_list
                configuration: driver=ahci latency=0
                resources: irq:16 ioport:dc00(size=8) ioport:d880(size=4) ioport:d800(size=8) ioport:d480(size=4) ioport:d400(size=16) memory:f8ffe000-f8ffffff
        *-pci:4
             description: PCI bridge
             product: 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 2
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1c.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.1
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
             resources: irq:28 ioport:c000(size=4096) memory:f8e00000-f8efffff
           *-firewire
                description: FireWire (IEEE 1394)
                product: VIA Technologies, Inc.
                vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
                version: 00
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
                configuration: driver=ohci1394 latency=0
                resources: irq:17 memory:f8eef800-f8eeffff ioport:c000(size=256)
           *-ide UNCLAIMED
                description: IDE interface
                product: PATA IDE Host Controller
                vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
                physical id: 0.1
                bus info: pci@0000:02:00.1
                version: a0
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: ide pm msi pciexpress cap_list
                configuration: latency=0
                resources: ioport:cc00(size=8) ioport:c880(size=4) ioport:c800(size=8) ioport:c480(size=4) ioport:c400(size=16) memory:f8ef0000-f8efffff(prefetchable)
        *-pci:5
             description: PCI bridge
             product: 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 6
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1c.5
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.5
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
             resources: irq:29 ioport:b000(size=4096) memory:f8d00000-f8dfffff ioport:cff00000(size=1048576)
           *-network
                description: Ethernet interface
                product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
                vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
                logical name: eth0
                version: 03
                serial: 00:19:66:ee:2e:38
                size: 100MB/s
                capacity: 1GB/s
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
                configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full ip=192.168.178.29 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
                resources: irq:30 ioport:b800(size=256) memory:cffff000-cfffffff(prefetchable) memory:cfff8000-cfffbfff(prefetchable) memory:f8de0000-f8dfffff(prefetchable)
        *-usb:4
             description: USB Controller
             product: 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:23 ioport:8880(size=32)
        *-usb:5
             description: USB Controller
             product: 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.1
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:19 ioport:8c00(size=32)
        *-usb:6
             description: USB Controller
             product: 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.2
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:18 ioport:9000(size=32)
        *-usb:7
             description: USB Controller
             product: 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d.7
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.7
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm debug bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:23 memory:f8cfc000-f8cfc3ff
        *-pci:6
             description: PCI bridge
             product: 82801 PCI Bridge
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1e
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.0
             version: 90
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci bus_master cap_list
        *-isa
             description: ISA bridge
             product: 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: isa bus_master cap_list
             configuration: latency=0
        *-ide:0
             description: IDE interface
             product: 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
             logical name: scsi1
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ide pm bus_master cap_list emulated
             configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0
             resources: irq:19 ioport:9c00(size=8) ioport:9880(size=4) ioport:9800(size=8) ioport:9480(size=4) ioport:9400(size=16) ioport:9080(size=16)
           *-disk
                description: ATA Disk
                product: STM31000528AS
                vendor: Seagate
                physical id: 0.0.0
                bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
                logical name: /dev/sda
                version: CC35
                serial: 9VP0RRV8
                size: 931GiB (1TB)
                capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
                configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=f778f778
              *-volume:0
                   description: Windows NTFS volume
                   physical id: 1
                   bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0,1
                   logical name: /dev/sda1
                   logical name: /media/windisk
                   version: 3.1
                   serial: 96278357-74c8-d241-95cb-ff9994b3a8fb
                   size: 516GiB
                   capacity: 516GiB
                   capabilities: primary bootable ntfs initialized
                   configuration: clustersize=4096 created=2009-09-09 19:58:18 filesystem=ntfs label=HD modified_by_chkdsk=true mount.fstype=fuseblk mount.options=rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096 mounted_on_nt4=true resize_log_file=true state=mounted upgrade_on_mount=true
              *-volume:1
                   description: Linux swap volume
                   physical id: 2
                   bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0,2
                   logical name: /dev/sda2
                   version: 1
                   serial: 9e0b1f3e-5fa6-4495-93e6-d27532345f1a
                   size: 5106MiB
                   capacity: 5106MiB
                   capabilities: primary nofs swap initialized
                   configuration: filesystem=swap pagesize=4096
              *-volume:2
                   description: EXT3 volume
                   vendor: Linux
                   physical id: 3
                   bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0,3
                   logical name: /dev/sda3
                   logical name: /
                   version: 1.0
                   serial: 24987c36-5a1c-49b8-94be-54705e9ac2d8
                   size: 410GiB
                   capacity: 410GiB
                   capabilities: primary journaled extended_attributes large_files recover ext3 ext2 initialized
                   configuration: created=2009-11-16 21:43:55 filesystem=ext3 modified=2009-11-26 18:44:18 mount.fstype=ext3 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=writeback mounted=2009-11-29 22:19:16 state=mounted
        *-serial UNCLAIMED
             description: SMBus
             product: 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.3
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3
             version: 00
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             configuration: latency=0
             resources: memory:f8cfe000-f8cfe0ff ioport:400(size=32)
        *-ide:1
             description: IDE interface
             product: 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.5
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.5
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ide pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0
             resources: irq:19 ioport:ac00(size=8) ioport:a880(size=4) ioport:a800(size=8) ioport:a480(size=4) ioport:a400(size=16) ioport:a080(size=16)

**chrisfu** · November 29th, 2009

Originally Posted by RRockon

*-ide UNCLAIMED
description: IDE interface
product: PATA IDE Host Controller
vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
physical id: 0.1
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.1
version: a0
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: ide pm msi pciexpress cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: ioport:cc00(size=8) ioport:c880(size=4) ioport:c800(size=8) ioport:c480(size=4) ioport:c400(size=16) memory:f8ef0000-f8efffff(prefetchable)

Hmmm, sounds like you have a VT6330 chip on your motherboard. What brand and model is the board? If you check the board you should see a chip exactly like this on it:

The VT6330 is a hybrid chip to cut costs. It handles PATA IDE and and firewire. The firewire functionality is identical to that of the VT6315S chip they produce to handle that, which is why your firewire is working and not listed as unclaimed.

The PATA IDE functionality is *supposed* to be identical to that of the VT6415 (which has been supported since 2.6.28), but alas there was one tiny, tiny difference which meant that it doesn't work. It is detected during boot, but the module that's supposed to work with it, outright rejects it.

I reported this to VIA around 5 weeks ago with suggested fix, and they have since had a patch accepted into the 2.6.32 kernel tree. The Ubuntu Kernel team have also implemented this fix (amongst 100 or so other fixes) into 2.6.31-16 which is due to appear in karmic-proposed in the next week or so.

A working pre-release version of this kernel is available now from https://launchpad.net/~stefan-bader-...archive/karmic. Give that a shot and let me know how it works out for you! It's just a new apt source containing that kernel, and so won't interfere with your system at all.

Chris

**RRockon** · November 30th, 2009

I tried the new kernel and it fixes the IDE troubles completely! Guess I'll wait for next week for the 'definitive' version. It's not a major thing right now... and I had to disable the Nvidia drivers to get an X started. Probably something simple, but I didn't feel it was worth the effort to tinker with that when it's likely to not be an issue next week on release.

Thanks for the heads-up!

**chrisfu** · November 30th, 2009

Originally Posted by RRockon

I tried the new kernel and it fixes the IDE troubles completely! Guess I'll wait for next week for the 'definitive' version. It's not a major thing right now... and I had to disable the Nvidia drivers to get an X started. Probably something simple, but I didn't feel it was worth the effort to tinker with that when it's likely to not be an issue next week on release.

Thanks for the heads-up!

Glad that it worked for you.

Installing it should have really compiled the Nvidia modules really, but I imagine it'll be an issue that's ironed out when it's released properly.

It's not guaranteed to be released next week, but judging by when it was announced on the kernel team mailing list and the usual cycle, that's when I'd expect to see it hit karmic-proposed.