Ok, so after running 9.10 and discovering this issue. I now have booted off a 9.04 USB stick and dd'ed /dev/zero over both sda and sdb. I then installed 9.04 and have no issues.
So the hardware is not faulty.
Ok, so after running 9.10 and discovering this issue. I now have booted off a 9.04 USB stick and dd'ed /dev/zero over both sda and sdb. I then installed 9.04 and have no issues.
So the hardware is not faulty.