hard disk device not detected in hardy heron 64 bit

[Bullet]

Binary package hint: gparted

My hard disk is not detected by the gparted both in the LIVE CD mode of ubuntu 8.04 LTS(hardy heron) 64 bit & also while installing from it.Strangely enough....Feisty Fawn is quite happy with my hard disk(the same one) & i am absolutely satisfied with its performance in every aspect.its very sad that i cant install hardy heron on my machine.(both "install into windows" & fresh installation modes failed,all of them proceed to partition editor stage,& in that stage....the whole workspace(or the partition editor window) is blank with every button(such as new partition,edit partition)is disabled).When i run hardy in the live cd mode....gparted can not detect any device.
my hard disk is SAMSUNG SP0802N,processor is AMD Athlon 64 bit with 2.00 GHz speed,motherboard is ASUS M2N-MX.I am really surprized to see that feisty is working beautifully with this very hard disk ,but hardy cant detect it.Also,this is the first time i had a problem installing ubuntu since bridgy(i skipped only edgy & gutsy in between).I need help on these & also i need to know what exactly do i need to send.i can send feisty's fstab file,but will it be of any use?plz help quickly.

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

You have an Nvidia Southbridge. The problem seems to be your IDE/SATA controller... Can you tell me the output of lspci and lsmod? Also dmesg...
Also, just to clarify: You don't want to upgrade feisty, right?

[Bullet (sswarnendu)]

root@bullet-desktop:~# lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SMBus (rev a2)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev
a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 IDE (rev a2)
00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 6100 nForce
430 (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM
Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscellaneous Control
root@bullet-desktop:~# lsmod
Module Size Used by
ppp_deflate 7936 0
zlib_deflate 22296 1 ppp_deflate
bsd_comp 7552 0
ppp_async 14464 1
crc_ccitt 3456 1 ppp_async
ppp_generic 32672 7 ppp_deflate,bsd_comp,ppp_async
slhc 8320 1 ppp_generic
ipv6 307072 12
binfmt_misc 14604 1
rfcomm 45352 0
l2cap 28160 5 rfcomm
bluetooth 62340 4 rfcomm,l2cap
ppdev 11272 0
powernow_k8 16480 1
cpufreq_powersave 3072 0
cpufreq_userspace 6176 0
cpufreq_stats 8416 0
cpufreq_conservative 9736 0
cpufreq_ondemand 10640 1
freq_table 6336 3 powernow_k8,cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
dev_acpi 17028 0
tc1100_wmi 9224 0
sony_acpi 7064 0
pcc_acpi 15616 0
video 19080 0
dock 11992 0
battery 12040 0
asus_acpi 19756 0
container 6144 0
button 10016 0
backlight 8448 1 asus_acpi
ac 6920 0
sbs 17856 0
i2c_ec 6784 1 sbs
nls_iso8859_1 6528 3
nls_cp437 8192 3
vfat 16256 3
fat 58672 1 vfat
lp 15048 0
fuse 51888 0
snd_hda_intel 24224 1
snd_hda_codec 262912 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss 49536 0
snd_mixer_oss 19840 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 92808 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 5380 0
snd_seq_oss 36608 0
snd_seq_midi 11008...

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

the hardy livecd does not include the restricted nvidia driver.

when you boot with the livecd, you have to run the "restricted drivers manager" and download & enable the drivers it will propose... then start anew the installation procedure

[Bullet (sswarnendu)]

but i cant find the right package.....can you name the package to me?there is no 'restricted drivers manager' in hardy.........i was busy meanwhile......so could not really contact you......i tried.....but the problem remained......i have almost given up hope..... its very difficult to find the package with a dial-up conn & every time i start a live session i have to set up the internet connection anew.
plz help......tell me which packages are required.

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

You can find the Restricted Drivers Manager under System | Administration. Enable everything in there.

[Bullet (sswarnendu)]

there is only one item in restricted drivers manager.........which
says nvidia graphics driver........but it cant be enabled......&
neither it prompts me to install anything.......secondly,my graphics &
every other hardware is working well........but it just can not detect
my hard disk......i found a similar bug report in bug number
209974......so i also reported my case there.....
from the description of that bug.....it seems to me that my problem is
identical,except that i had this problem using ubuntu(hardy heron) 64
bit live cd(that bug was about a similar problem about xubuntu
installation).

On 8/18/08, Dimitrios Symeonidis <email address hidden> wrote:
> You can find the Restricted Drivers Manager under System |
> Administration. Enable everything in there.
>
> --
> hard disk device not detected in hardy heron 64 bit
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/244375
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

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Bullet

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

the module needed for your harddisk is sata_nv, which is not in restricted modules, I was wrong.
So in hardy, can you try "sudo modprobe sata_nv"?
Also, the dmesg & lsmod output we need is from hardy, to see what is wrong. Your outputs from feisty look alright...

[Bullet (sswarnendu)]

'sudo modprobe sata_nv' returns the shell prompt without any
messages,& the problem is not fixed.the output of lspci,dmesg & lsmod
from hardy live cd is provided below.
ubuntu@ubuntu:/$ lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SMBus (rev a2)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 IDE (rev a2)
00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 6100
nForce 430 (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
ubuntu@ubuntu:/$ dmesg
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.24-16-generic (buildd@yellow) (gcc
version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 12:47:45 UTC
2008 (Ubuntu 2.6.24-16.30-generic)
[ 0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz
file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.gz
quiet splash --
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001bfc0000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000001bfc0000 - 000000001bfce000 (ACPI data)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000001bfce000 - 000000001bff0000 (ACPI NVS)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000001bff0000 - 000000001c000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fef00000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ff780000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 159) 0 entries of 3200 used
[ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 256, 114624) 1 entries of 3200 used
[ 0.000000] end_pfn_map = 1048576
[ 0.000000] DMI present.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP signature @ 0xFFFF8100000FB9F0 checksum 0
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000FB9F0, 0014 (r0 ACPIAM)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 1BFC0000, 003C (r1 A_M_I_ OEMRSDT 11000624
MSFT 97)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 1BFC0200, 0084 (r2 A_M_I_ OEMFACP 11000624
MSFT 97)
[ 0.000000] ACPI...

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

It just came to me: the problem might be the bios and apic...
Try booting with the noapic kernel option...

To do this, at the livecd boot menu press F6 (other options), and at the line starting with "kernel" go to the end and add the word "noapic".

Tell me how it went

[Bullet (sswarnendu)]

no difference at all with the "noapic" option...i've already tried
that....i tried it again after i got ur last post,but same thing
again...gparted still didnt detect anything....& also in the manual
partition editing page of installation nothing is displayed as before

On 8/31/08, Dimitrios Symeonidis <email address hidden> wrote:
> It just came to me: the problem might be the bios and apic...
> Try booting with the noapic kernel option...
>
> To do this, at the livecd boot menu press F6 (other options), and at the
> line starting with "kernel" go to the end and add the word "noapic".
>
> Tell me how it went
>
> --
> hard disk device not detected in hardy heron 64 bit
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/244375
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

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Bullet

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

I looked up your hard disk, and saw that it's pata, not sata. So forget about the sata controller and about sata_nv...

Your ide controller appears in lspci. You seem to have libata loaded, but I think it needs pata_amd.
Can you try "sudo modprobe pata_amd" and tell me if that changes anything?

[Bullet (sswarnendu)]

i tried "sudo modprobe pata_amd"......nothing happened or
changed.....i ran it also with the verbose mode........i am sending
the output of gparted also....i think it might help.......
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo modprobe pata_amd -v
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo gparted
======================
libparted : 1.7.1
======================
Unable to open /dev/fd0 read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/fd0
has been opened read-only.
Input/output error during read on /dev/fd0
Unable to open /dev/scd0 read-write (Read-only file system).
/dev/scd0 has been opened read-only.
Unable to open /dev/scd0 read-write (Read-only file system).
/dev/scd0 has been opened read-only.
Unable to open /dev/scd0 - unrecognised disk label.

N:B:my floppy-disk drive is not connected to the computer....since it
is old & does not work properly......,after these messages,the gparted
GUI shows no device detected......so i pressed Ctrl+C to terminate the
program....i guess /dev/scd0 should have been my hard
disk,right?....anyway,see if it can help you to help me....

On 9/8/08, Dimitrios Symeonidis <email address hidden> wrote:
> I looked up your hard disk, and saw that it's pata, not sata. So forget
> about the sata controller and about sata_nv...
>
> Your ide controller appears in lspci. You seem to have libata loaded, but I
> think it needs pata_amd.
> Can you try "sudo modprobe pata_amd" and tell me if that changes anything?
>
> --
> hard disk device not detected in hardy heron 64 bit
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/244375
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

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Bullet

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

No, scd0 is your cd-rom. I don't know why you're getting these error messages.

Can you give me the output of "lspci -nn"?
And, have you tested the ubuntu livecd to see there's nothing wrong with it?

[kernel-janitor (kernel-janitor)]

Hi Bullet,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux-image-`uname -r` 244375

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

[This is an automated message. Apologies if it has reached you inappropriately; please just reply to this message indicating so.]

[Bullet (sswarnendu)]

Hi,
This bug remained an issue with hardy....but with intrepid onwards.....it is
no longer there...as i've already mentioned that feisty( & all previous ones
starting from bridgy ) was doing fine with my hard disk.....& so is intrepid
& jaunty....only hardy failed to recognize the same hard disk of mine....( i
have not tested gutsy)....the reason is still beyond me...But since right
now i am using intrepid,i no longer has any problem regarding this bug.
Thanking you,

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:07 PM, kernel-janitor <email address hidden>wrote:

> Hi Bullet,
>
> This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in
> it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try
> with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are
> available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .
>
> If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a
> Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically
> gather and attach updated debug information to this report.
>
> apport-collect -p linux-image-`uname -r` 244375
>
> Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would
> be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the
> issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once
> you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-
> testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon
> next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and
> deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your
> results.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> [This is an automated message. Apologies if it has reached you
> inappropriately; please just reply to this message indicating so.]
>
>
> ** Tags added: needs-kernel-logs
>
> ** Tags added: needs-upstream-testing
>
> ** Tags added: kj-triage
>
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> hard disk device not detected in hardy heron 64 bit
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/244375
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

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With Regards,
Swarnendu Sil
contact:[phone]

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

Closing as fix released, as per your last comment
Thank you, and good luck

[Bullet (sswarnendu)]

With Regards,
Swarnendu Sil
Junior Research Scholar
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Centre for Applicable Mathematics
Sharadanagar,Chikkabommasandra,
Bangalore-560064, India

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[Bullet (sswarnendu)]

With Regards,
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Junior Research Scholar
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Centre for Applicable Mathematics
Sharadanagar,Chikkabommasandra,
Bangalore-560064, India

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