Comment 3 for bug 583790

There's no complicated work here to prove the "Advanced Format" used by the
WD drives don't work.

Install the drive into a machine and try to install from an Ubuntu CD...
install eventually works but there are constant disk busy/time-out retry
errors occurring.

I'm not sure what you want? What behavior did I expect you asked.... ?
I'd expect either of those 2 new SATA drives to WORK !

Just like the Seagate or Hitachi drives that I used immediately afterward on
the SAME computer to install Ubuntu.

The ONLY difference that I can tell is the Western Digital uses this new
"Advanced Format" and the other drives don't.

Junk the bug if you want but either the WD 1TB SATA drive architecture is
faulty -or- its an Linux/Ubuntu problem with the new "Advanced Format" being
used.

However, since this "Advanced Format" is a new spec and there are not a lot
of drives out yet with it.... I think this is going to come up again with
someone else.

Brian

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Philippe Gauthier <
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> ** Changed in: ubuntu
> Status: New => Incomplete
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> Ubuntu 10.04 and Western DIgital's new Advanced Format SATA drives -
> constant drive errors
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/583790
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