any reason 11.10 wouldn't see the first of 2 hard drives during install?

[NoOp]

On 12/06/2011 03:33 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   i'm teaching an embedded linux class this week and one of my
> students came up to me during a break to ask a ubuntu question.  seems
> he has an ASUS desktop at home and, when he goes to install 11.10, the
> installation never sees the first of his two hard drives.
> 
>   as he describes it, they're both regular SATA drives, first one
> fairly small, second one a terabyte or so.  when he's running ubuntu
> *live*, apparently they're both visible.  if he runs openSUSE, they're
> also both visible.  it's only when he goes to install ubuntu 11.10 on
> that system that, suddenly, his first drive isn't there anymore.
> 
>   i have little more detail than that, only what he's described.  does
> this sound familiar to anyone?  i can ask for more details later
> today, like model number and so on.
> 
> rday
> 

Sounds like a raid issue. Perhaps these will be of interest:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/573618
[Installer does not detect hard drive partitions ]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dmraid/+bug/543008
[Ubiquity can't find the sata hard disk (promise 376 chip)] (related due
to Ubiquity skipping a drive with raid metadata)

Else:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity
<http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0#hl=en&complete=0&site=webhp&q=ubuntu+%2Bubiquity+%2Bsata>