Comment 4 for bug 19749

Armin: If you deactivate RAID in the BIOS it warns you that it will destroy all
your data. While I could try this, I've been asked to try NOT to do this, so I'd
want confirmation from the Laptop Team leaders first. I've also spent lots of
time on the two sites you mentioned and both are extremely out of date. The only
mention of the S100 on either was on the Japanese Toshiba site and their only
suggestion is "doesn't SATA show up as SCSI - meaning /dev/hd* instead of
/dev/sd*. I knew this was the case before I opened the box. Thanks for the
suggestions though! :)

One other option I've seen (not Ubuntu specific) is to use a Windows version of
GRUB and put a few files (kernel, vmlinuz, initrd) into C:\boot\. I've not seen
this suggested specifically for the S100 either and I'm not convinced that it
would solve the drive recognition issue anyway.

For the record, don't count me as lazy because I don't want to try a *very*
alternative way of installing Linux. It's my understanding at this point that
the whole reason for the Laptop Team was to get these machines working correctly
right out of the box. If the powers that be tell me to wipe the drive and start
from scratch, I'd be happy to do it, but it seems that would defeat the purpose.
Windows users unfamiliar with Linux aren't very likely to go to that extreme to
play around with Ubuntu. (and also for the record, the Colony 2 live cd doesn't
start X and just freezes on the "do you want to see the X server output?" screen
- perhaps due to the PCI-E video card which I think this machine has - Toshiba
is very sketchy on technical details).