installing 8.04 on sata drives prob

[Eberhard Roloff]

James Takac wrote:
> Hi Guys
> 
> I'm having probs installing ubuntu (32 bit) on a friends pc. Have loaned one 
> of mine till I sort this out. Both live and alternate cds pass the integrity 
> check yet both throw up read errors during the install phase. Both HDD and 
> DVD drive are sata and bios shows them both on the same ide interface (#3) 
> with the HDD as master and the DVD as slave. The processor is a 2.4g P4 
> celeron. Do I need to set specific parameters for the sata drives in BIOS 
> maybe? The mobo is an ASUS PSGC-MX if that also helps. I'm not having much 
> luck via google but suspect the prob to be related to both drives being sata 
> and/or settings for the drives. Any ideas I can try?
> 
> James
> 
Hi James,

with SATA there is no Master/Slave Concept anymore. Are you sure?

As this is an older machine from the "SATA stoneage", I would consider 
to do a Bios upgrade, should it be availalbe and should the release 
notes from your Bios version to the current say something indicating 
that is could relate to your problem.

Furthermore you might try to vary the SATA mode in your Bios.
Usually you can choose between IDE and AHCI.
However, in contrast to wintendo, Linux gnerally does not have trouble 
with either setting.

Lastly it might help to try newer Ubuntu releases, i.e. Intrepid 8.10 or 
at least 8.04.1

kind regards
Eberhard