Unable to install, sata (sda) drive not appearing in partitioner...

[Kevin L]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

During the Install process I am unable to find my 320gb seagate sata2 hd, the installer however detects my 1tb seagate sata drive.

During the install after working my way through the installer the partition manager begins to load slows around 47% after a short pause finishes, but does not advance for approximately 3mins to the partitioner screen.

Once at the partitioner screen it only shows the Terabyte drive (sdb) and no option to select sda drive.

If I open the disk utilities I can mount, add, delete partitions from the sda drive, so I have tried to the installer with sda mounted...unmounted, clear space on the drive....

I have installed many versions of linux over the last couple of years using the installers, but hadn't encountered this one on my system... somehow I get the impression this is going to involve me recompiling my kernel... lol

My sys
Intel Core 2 E8400
Asus P5Qpro Mb
2gb firestix ram
Nvidia 9600 512mb vid card

Want to dual boot with Vista (since I like to game) yes I've used Cedega with decent results....

any ideas would be appreciated.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Are you able to reproduce this on 12.04 or later? If so, please provide the output of sudo parted -l.

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