Comment 0 for bug 155047

   In my system, starting gparted all I get is the app window saying "Scanning all devices" for ever (== at least half an hour... that's as far as my patience goes :))

   Disappointingly enough, this happens even when booting with with the Gutsy 7.10 official Live CD (with the disk having no partition table at all - brand new). Only the SATA disk installed in the system.

   It also happens after the successful installation with the disk fully partitioned.

   All this is with my new SATA seagate 7200.10 750gb disk and I needed to create extended partitions (which the default Ubuntu Installer partitioner wouldn't let me do... that's why I needed gparted), so I finally had to use an external tool to do it (acronis). In the past (feisty and before), gparted worked great in similar scenarios and I didn't have to resort to external tools (acronis worked great, and is a linux app as well).

   HW description:

   MOBO: old ASUS P4C800 (i875P) with integrated IDE and SATA

   Controller & disk, from lshw:

        *-ide:1
             description: IDE interface
             product: 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
             logical name: scsi2
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ide bus_master emulated
             configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0 module=ata_piix
           *-disk
                description: SCSI Disk
                product: ST3750640AS
                vendor: ATA
                physical id: 0.0.0
                bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0
                logical name: /dev/sda
                version: 3.AA
                serial: 5QD0WGPC
                size: 698GB
                capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
                configuration: ansiversion=5
              *-volume:0
                   description: Linux filesystem partition
                   physical id: 1
                   bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0,1
                   logical name: /dev/sda1
                   capacity: 25GB
                   capabilities: primary bootable
              *-volume:1
                   description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
                   physical id: 2
                   bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0,2
                   logical name: /dev/sda2
                   capacity: 3074MB
                   capabilities: primary nofs
              *-volume:2
                   description: Linux filesystem partition
                   physical id: 3
                   bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0,3
                   logical name: /dev/sda3
                   capacity: 25GB
                   capabilities: primary
              *-volume:3
                   description: Extended partition
                   physical id: 4
                   bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0,4
                   size: 645GB
                   capacity: 645GB
                   capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
                 *-logicalvolume:0
                      description: Linux filesystem partition
                      physical id: 5
                      logical name: /dev/sda5
                      capacity: 85GB
                 *-logicalvolume:1
                      description: Linux filesystem partition
                      physical id: 6
                      logical name: /dev/sda6
                      capacity: 550GB
                 *-logicalvolume:2
                      description: HPFS/NTFS partition
                      physical id: 7
                      logical name: /dev/sda7
                      capacity: 10GB

  Thanks a bunch for this great distro!!