Feisty unable to find SATA drives

Gary Allen Garibaldi gary_garibaldi at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jul 14 11:20:24 UTC 2007


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
> 
Mary

Is this a toshiba? Sounds like the trouble I was having with my S100, if
it is I'll send you the instructions on how to get everything installed
and configured so it will work correctly.

Gary




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