Sata Problem

[Glen Merrick]

6.10 and 6.06 work wonderfully on my laptop which is a sata system. The
issue resides completely with ubuntu and the kernel modules they decided
to include with the 7.04 release default kernel. This version of the
kernel and the subsequent kernel updates do not include all of the
mecessary sata modules to get sata chipsets working. The quickest way to
see if your system is compatible is to run the 7.04 live cd and load
Gparted. Gparted with either see the drive or not.

Glen Merrick


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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:49:05 -0400
> From: George Borusiewich <v.g.borus at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: SATA drive
> To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
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> I have only one hard drive on my computer. It happens to be a SATA 
> drive. It performed completely satisfactorily with 6.06, 6.10, 7.04beta, 
> and again with 7.04.  In  the case of each upgrade, I  formatted the 
> partition before installing the next version.    George
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> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:56:58 -0400
> From: "Chris Patten" <chrisjpatten at gmail.com>
> Subject: sata raid
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> I have a sata raid card and 2x500 gig sata drives, I want to disk mirror or
> raid0/1.  The raid is handled in the hardware of the card, not software.  It
> worked well under windows, windows showed 1x500 gig drive.  Now under ubuntu
> it shows 2x500 gig drives.  Why?  And what do I need to change?
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> Chris
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> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:30:36 -0300
> From: Glen Merrick <at903 at chebucto.ns.ca>
> Subject: Re: ubuntu-ca Digest, Vol 25, Issue 27
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> Interesting - my sole HD is SATA, has been since Breezy, and I've
> never had any issues, including during my upgrade from Edgy to Feisty
> last week. I upgraded in place, though. Is this only a problem on
> initial installation/re-installation?
>
> Brian
> ubuntu-ca.org
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> No this is a kernel issue, the system will simply not start.  If you happened to know the particular module you need and it happened to reside on your computer during install, you can try and load it using modprobe when the system dumps you into the tinylinux boot loader.  I tried loading as many of the sata modules as I could find on the system to no avail.  Something either was left out in the new builds or ...shrug.  myself and my co-worker who use ubuntu as a primary os for a number of servers have decided that we are going to wait until this problem gets fixed.
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> The only way they are going to be able to fix it, is to release a new set of ISO's to fix the problem.
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> Glen Merrick
> Nova Scotia
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> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:47:33 -0700
> From: "Daniel Robitaille" <robitaille at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: ubuntu-ca Digest, Vol 25, Issue 27
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> On 4/28/07, Glen Merrick <at903 at chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:
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>> Interesting - my sole HD is SATA, has been since Breezy, and I've
>> never had any issues, including during my upgrade from Edgy to Feisty
>> last week. I upgraded in place, though. Is this only a problem on
>> initial installation/re-installation?
>>
>> Brian
>> ubuntu-ca.org
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>> No this is a kernel issue, the system will simply not start.  If you happened to know the particular module you need and it happened to reside on your computer during install, you can try and load it using modprobe when the system dumps you into the tinylinux boot loader.  I tried loading as many of the sata modules as I could find on the system to no avail.  Something either was left out in the new builds or ...shrug.  myself and my co-worker who use ubuntu as a primary os for a number of servers have decided that we are going to wait until this problem gets fixed.
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>> The only way they are going to be able to fix it, is to release a new set of ISO's to fix the problem.
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> Is there a bug report open about your problem in Launchpad?  I did try
> to search for one, but didn't find anything (but with the quantity of
> bug reports  open about the kernel, I may have missed it...)
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