ubuntu 10.04 does not see my sata hard drive

[Mark Croft]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

at step 4 , no hard drives appear.

Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release: 10.04

01:09.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20371 (FastTrak S150 TX2plus) (rev 02)

[ 7.256053] ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[ 7.264575] ata3.00: ATA-6: ST3160023AS, 3.00, max UDMA/133
[ 7.264584] ata3.00: 312581808 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
[ 7.280593] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 7.280793] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3160023AS 3.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 7.281117] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[ 7.281482] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 312581808 512-byte logical blocks: (160 GB/149 GiB)
[ 7.281605] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 7.281613] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 7.281676] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

not sure what else i can tell you about the problem i am having installing ubuntu 10.4 on my machine.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Mar 26 15:31:47 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
Package: ubiquity 2.2.5
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686

[Mark Croft (croftyboy)]

i changed the sata card for another one and still happened but then i followed instructions here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1380077

sudo dmraid -E -r /dev/sda (or /dev/sdb, depending)
sudo apt-get remove dmraid

now seems to be working.

[Ivan Frederiks (idfred)]

Same problem, same solution. Thank you, croftyboy!