Feisty unable to find SATA drives

[Chris Malton]

Have you tried installing to the disk using the Ubuntu "Alternate" CD
image?

Chris

On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 16:48 +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> I have a new computer on which I am trying to use Ubuntu. It has a SATA
> controller which lspci identifies as "IDE Intel 82801GB SATA Storage
> Controller" (identifier 27c0).
> 
> The Feisty LiveCD is unable to find any drives attached to the SATA
> controller, neither the DVD burner nor a hard drive.
> 
> The hard drive is known good: it can be read and written to seemingly
> with no errors using a SuSE Enterprise 10 Server CD in Rescue mode
> (kernel on that CD is 2.6.16). GRUB can also get the bios to boot a
> kernel from it, but once booted, Feisty cannot see anything on the
> controller.
> 
> Is this a known problem with the Feisty kernel, or are there any other
> thoughts?
> 
> -Mary
>