Comment 0 for bug 199573

1.) Ubuntu Hardy Heron, updated 7th of Feb. 2008
 Installation from CD not possible

2.) HDD: Samsung T166 Spinpoint 320GB, S-ATA2
 Motherboard: Asus M3N78-EMH HDMI (with Geforce 8200 GPU
onboard)

3.) The HDD is not recognized while installing Hardy, partition window is empty, can't make any changes.. > installation not possible

4.) Problematic recognition with gutsy, too. After formating the hdd gutsy recognizes the hdd.
 (...hardy not)

My HDDs partitions now:
1.NTFS 30GB
2.NTFS 50GB
3.ext3 25GB ← primary, root
4.ext3 ~210GB ← logical, \home

If I choose the standard Hardy Heron Mode (kernel 2.6.24-11), it hangs up at the following point:

[ 4.276000] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 4.288000] ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd0xec)
[ ... ] ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
[ ... ] ata1.00: failed to recover some devices
..
...
....
sr 6:0:1:0 Attached scsi generic sg1 type5
Done.

Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline
or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls/dev
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-unid/9ae09019-d95f-4cd3-bd46-16c7bfddf2dd does not exist
Dropping to a shell!

Debian BusyBox...
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under gutsy:

[ 4.276000] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 4.288000] ata1.00: ATA-8: SAMSUNG HD321KJ, CP100-12, max UDMA7