[Bug 19749] Re: SATA HDD not recognized during Breezy Colony 4 install or Dapper Flight 3 or Edgy Eft or Feisty Fawn

[Luise Kunkle]

I posted this as 4427 a few days ago, in German on the forum.

Here is the same in English.

edgy does not recognize my SATA HD's

For the last 1 1/2 years I have tried to install the then current
versions of ubuntu with always the above-mentioned failure.  The same is
happening with edgy, although the error reports on the screen have
improved.

NO RAID

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hardware:

Hardware (as per bios)

Primary IDE-master HL-DT-ST DUDRAM GS ([DVD-LW]
"        "  slave LITE-On [CD-LW]
Secondary IDE master ---------
    "       "  slave  ---------

Third IDE master SAMSUNG HD 120 IJ [S ATA 2]
Third IDE slave  SAMSUNG HD 120 IJ [ß ATA 2]

Intel (R) celeron (R) D CPV 2.80 GHZ

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lspci report


00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub
Inte
rface (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev
02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI
Contr
oller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI
Contr
oller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI
Contr
oller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI
Contr
oller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI
Cont
roller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface
Brid
ge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE
Controller
(rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev
02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER
(ICH5/ICH5R) A
C'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce
6600/GeForce
 6600 GT] (rev a2)
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139
C+ (rev 10)

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Problem:

Practically right after booting the installation CD - appr. third
screen- (after longish wait)

17179614.644000 ata 1: failed to set xfer mode (err mask=0x4)

further waiting (why I could copy down above number)

the same report with a different number - no time to copy this

it goes on right away: language, keyboard, network. conf..... hd and
other hardware searched for

Report: no harddrives found

The listing of drivers for harddrives.

Asked someone more knowledgeable than myself, he found the following
possibilities for driver:

 ***

SATA mit   AHCI SATA support and support for   Intel PIIX/ICH SATA
support (

************

At next installation attempt I found among the drivers in the list AHCI
and PID (without ICH). With both (and also with ataPIIC) after
activating first blue screen, than without further comment back to list
of drivers.

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Since neither debian nor gentoo (nor windows xp) have any problem
installing, I suppose that this is bug with ubuntu-

I suspect that ubuntu, after not finding any hd at the first and second
master/slave position does not look further.

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SATA HDD not recognized during Breezy Colony 4 install or Dapper Flight 3 or Edgy Eft or Feisty Fawn
https://launchpad.net/bugs/19749