[Bug 1765769] Re: ubiquity hard disk not detected

[Phillip Susi]

The installer uses parted so the problem is there.  It also does not
appear to be a problem with your WD10EARS. parted -l takes no argument,
so your /dev/sda argument is ignored.  The -l says to list all drives.
It listed /dev/sda just fine, then moves on to another drive where it
finds a bogus MAC partition table and complains about it.  This often
happens on a USB stick that has had the installation .iso dd'd to it,
since it contains a hybrid DOS/MAC/ISO disk label and this isn't really
valid.  Choose ignore rather than cancel and it should print the table
instead of bailing out.


** Package changed: ubiquity (Ubuntu) => parted (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: parted (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  ubiquity hard disk not detected

Status in parted package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  This bug exists since LTS16.04 and is present in LTS18.04 (beta1 20
  april)

  Gparted, filemanager, everyone is happy with the disk.

  -can mount partitions
  -can resize partitions....
  -can copy from/write on

  Only the installer (ubiquity) fails to see it.

  When asking destination, it shows the usb-booted key and nothing more.
  But it correctly selects the hard disk (/dev/sda) for grub location !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  parted (on 18.04 / 16.04) complains about sector size 512 linux 2048 physical (block descriptor)
  Under a previous ubuntu, it's ok (3.16 kernel)

  Exchanging this hard drive (WD10ears) is ok (but unwanted.

  not a fancy bios, only AHCI mode and nothing, 2011 machine.

  Hardware 
  Acer Veriton M430
  hdd
  	Model Number:       WDC WD10EARS-22Y5B1                     
  	Serial Number:      WD-WCAV5E166338
  	Firmware Revision:  80.00A80
  	Transport:          Serial, SATA 1.0a, SATA II Extensions, SATA Rev 2.5, SATA Rev 2.6

  Included files : parted -l, dmidecode and hdparm -I

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