two independant sata drives seen as raid

[Charlieb000]

UBUNTU 10.04 setup/livecd problem
my problem is that i have two identical sata drives connected to the computer and instead of seperate drives - linux tends to see it as a raid of double the size. i started reporting it in the SUSE thing but i didnt quite like one thing in suse so i am looking around. i can seperate the drives in SUSE setup (but wasnt the first option), in your setup i cannot at all - so if i want to keep my data, i cannot install ubuntu direct to the drive.this bug is not as bad in SUSE so my other linux problems may be worse with ubuntu,

(video cards)
like in SUSE, two graphics cards (NV and ATI) wasnt auto setuped (and i need to do code to set them up - no GUI help whatsoever) the SUSE people have zero interest in fixing this which is odd due to the fact that GUI sells (um gives away) and CLI doesnt and multimonitrs are getting increasingly popular, i even used three screens(three cards) in win98.

(other hdd setup option)
 i tried putting files in the windows patitions and encounterd an error (it couldnt mount stuff) and asked me to do chkdsk/r - that partition has bad sectors under one DVD image so it faills. so i dont know if its a patition problem or a linux problem, and if i cannot get the cards to work well then i dont want to waste effort getting the drive or another drive working..

here is the report for suse 11.3
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=653081 also see the related bugs as they could be other future problems you could have if you fix it, and i see one - it should have been able to mount the partitions it does see in the so called 2x200Gb drive.. in one of the linked bugs i wrote [ i didnt see the problem in ubuntu ] this is incorrect and i cannot modify the post, it was a earlier version - a SUSE liveCD, 11.2 (hmm wonder if earlier versions of ubuntu liveCDs would work)

Charlie.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi Henry,

Please be sure to confirm this issue exists with the latest development release of Ubuntu. ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/ . If the issue remains, please 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 694934

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.

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[Charlieb000 (charlieb000-deactivatedaccount)]

i hadnt accessed launchpad for a while. and decided to try ubuntu again because of my laptop, i gave up namely because of my USB setup was inconvienent (and because i couldnt install on the SATA drives)
=== today
oops i got ahead of myself, i had commenced the apport but hadnt gotten the update, (which is now Natty), so getting it now. (the bug report was marked for expiry yesterday, so back in good time).

[Charlieb000 (charlieb000-deactivatedaccount)]

I downloaded it and found this is not a LIVE CD. i got a text setup instead. it goes well until it asks me about the sata controller,
what it does (headings of boxes):
scanning cdrom
loading additional components
detecting network hardware
configuring network with dhcp
[i enter in host name]
setting up the clock
detecting disks and other hardware
loading (something- toofast)
detect disks: one or more drives containing serial ata raid configurations have been found do you wish to activate these raid devices. well if i choose YES
setting up partitioner
(setting up partitoner dissappears and now screen is just blue with white line down bottom that fills with the text i type trying to "wake" it up) and now it will not do anything, waited for like 2-4 minutes.

so what does that mean - incompatibility with controller or drives?

so reboot and try again with NO (next post)

[Charlieb000 (charlieb000-deactivatedaccount)]

the white line at the bottom appears when there is no box in th e middle of the screen.

detecting disks and other hardware
loading additional components
detect disks (no)

same thing happens. so this version is 100% disfunctional (unless you have a live version around the place)...

file i downloaded was http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/natty-alternate-i386.iso

END (for now)

[Charlieb000 (charlieb000-deactivatedaccount)]

can you please tell me what i do once i get this upstream kernel? i will not get it if i dont know what to do with it. the problem is at its worst during setup because i "may" want to install onto my SATA controller. and i know i cant put any kernel onto setup.

Charlie.

[Charlieb000 (charlieb000-deactivatedaccount)]

the hardware i have is:

*motherboard's sata controller, GA-8i945G Pro, on the ich7r (82801GB/GR/GH *in win)

if you are interested in the Graphics setup also:
*ATI X700 (in a PCIE 1x slot) (bootup card) CRT monitor, runs best at 1280x1024 47HZ interlaced - left
*NV GF7800GTX (in a 16x slot) two monitors, LCD (1280x1024 native) - center, CRT 1280x1024 67HZ non-interlaced - right

the controller has two simular HDDs and this is being seen as a stripe with the name "linux device-mapper (striped)" on /dev/mapper/isw_dhfiebjffi_2x200GB , but the actual setup is individual seagate drives - it was a stripe but one developed bad sectors which i cant map as bad for some reason (easy in win9x) so computer crashes instead when accessing there.
Ubuntu sees my 2x200GB as having the first 200GB partitioned, the other half as having no partitions/free. SUSE had "minor" problems with this,(not being able to read the NTFS partitions in 11.3, but can read them in 11.2) and is able to see them, could install on it if i wanted to but i wouldnt trust it!.

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is missing log files that will aid in diagnosing the problem. From a terminal window please run:

apport-collect 694934

and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'.

If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'.

This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Charlieb000 (charlieb000-deactivatedaccount)]

i do not know which part of ubuntu this should belong.
eg: i have sent bugs for KDE to KDE instead of sending them to SUSE.

i have posted more details on this bug to the SUSE bug place, here:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=653081#c15

it turned out the individual disks were set as a raid, and linux saw this and set them as a software raid, without noticing that the partitions were not raided.

Charlie