IDE hard drive not working in Hardy Heron

[slayer]

Neither Hardy Live CD or hardy Heron fresh-installed let me work with the two partitions I got on my IDE drive. Notably on that IDE hard drive there is a windows partition (that was, obviously, removed from GRUB, and I had to add it manually) and an archive ext3 partition. My Ubuntu partition, the swap one and another ext3 archive partition are on the primary SATA drive.

Please note that :

1) If i boot with the option "all_generic_ide" the partitions are visible, but the general performance is compromised and I experience system lock-ups.

2) Everything worked ok with Gutsy

3) During the installation of Hardy the install program recognizes the partitions.

here's the output of "sudo fdisk -l"

Disco /dev/sda: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 byte
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
Units = cilindri of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x90399039

Dispositivo Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1804 14490598+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1805 14946 105563115 f W95 Esteso (LBA)
/dev/sda5 1805 14946 105563083+ 83 Linux

Disco /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 byte
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cilindri of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd624f0be

Dispositivo Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 2791 22418612 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 2792 3041 2008092 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb3 3042 30401 219769168 83 Linux

sda is the IDE drive, sdb the SATA one

output of "lsb_release -rd"

Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04

[slayer (antoniochiaravalloti)]

here's the output of "sudo lshw"

stormrider-desktop
    description: Desktop Computer
    product: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
    vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
    version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
    serial: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
    width: 32 bits
    capabilities: smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4 smp-1.4 smp
    configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop cpus=2 uuid=00020003-0004-0005-0006-000700080009
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: 4CoreDual-VSTA
       physical id: 0
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
          physical id: 0
          version: P1.40 (01/30/2007)
          size: 64KiB
          capacity: 448KiB
          capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification netboot
     *-cpu:0
          description: CPU
          product: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 4400 @ 2.00GHz
          vendor: Intel Corp.
          physical id: 4
          bus info: cpu@0
          version: 6.15.2
          serial: 0000-06F2-0000-0000-0000-0000
          slot: CPUSocket
          size: 2GHz
          capacity: 2GHz
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 200MHz
          capabilities: boot fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe x86-64 constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
          configuration: id=0
        *-cache:0
             description: L1 cache
             physical id: 5
             slot: L1-Cache
             size: 64KiB
             capacity: 64KiB
             capabilities: internal write-back data
        *-cache:1
             description: L2 cache
             physical id: 6
             slot: L2-Cache
             size: 2MiB
             capacity: 2MiB
             capabilities: internal write-back instruction
        *-cache:2 DISABLED
             description: L3 cache
             physical id: 7
             slot: L3-Cache
             capabilities: internal
        *-logicalcpu:0
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 0.1
             width: 64 bits
             capabilities: logical
        *-logicalcpu:1
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 0.2
             width: 64 bits
             capabilities: logical
     *-memory
          description: System Memory
          physical id: 10
          slot: System board or motherboard
          size: 1GiB
        *-bank:0
             description: DIMM SDRAM Synchronous
             product: PartNum0
             vendor: Manufacturer0
             physical id: 0
             serial: SerNum0
             slot: DIMM0
             size: 512MiB
             width: 64 bits
        *-bank:1
             description: DIMM SDRAM Synchronous
             product: PartNum1
             vendor: Manufacturer1
             physical id: 1
             serial: SerNum1
             slot: DIMM1
             size: 512MiB
             width: 64 bits
     *-cpu...

[slayer (antoniochiaravalloti)]

I forgot to say that in nautilus i can't even see the two partitions on the IDE drive, but just a SCSI drive that ubuntu is unable to mount.

[slayer (antoniochiaravalloti)]

GREAT NEWS !!!

I thought my ide cable could have been 40-wire instead of 80-wire. IT WAS!! NOW I GOT A 80-WIRE CABLE AND EVERYTHING WORKS GREAT WITH THE STANDARD (NEW) MODULES !!!

I tried four different cables, the amazing thing is that they all were 40-wire, I can't believe it!!!

The bug is now solved for me, thanks to everybody!

p.s. the only way to discover if your ide cable is 40-wire or 80-wire is that the 80-wire cable has got coloured pins (blue-mother board , gray-slave and black-master)

More suggestions:

I suggest not to use cable select, but to set your hd to master (if it is master) and connect it to the black pin of the cable, os slave and connect it to the gray pin.

I suggest, moreover, to set manually the speed of the hard disk (in my case ultra dma 6) and the PIO mode (4 to me). Who knows, maybe the bug affects via chipsets when they work in auto mode...

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with newer hardware. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status . Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.