Comment 27 for bug 285392

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From: "rjr162" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 6:35 PM
Subject: [Bug 285392] Re: Softreset failed (device not ready)

Argh sorry for the re-postings, I got it going again (still RAID 0 w/2
500GB WD drives). Two things I realized:

1> On Asus's website, it does list something about Seagate drives not
showing during booting. Now my 1.5TB did show, but it mentions about
some firmware change in their new drives can cause issues for SATA-II
interfaces or something.

2> The bigger issue.. so the RAID 0 is working, but with the two SATA-II
drives connected, and the raid constructed to be 1TB, when I get to the
partition option in 9.04 it doesn't show the one TB RAID 0 setup, but
it's detecting and showing *BOTH* 500 GB drives!

[x] Use the entire disk
.....[x] SCSI (0,0,0) (sda) - 500.1 GB ATA WDC etc....
.....[ ] SCSI (0,0,0) (sdb) - 500.1 GB ATA WDC etc...
[ ] Specify partitions manually (advanced)

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I'm guessing maybe the BIOS/Chipset/etc may have a flaw? Or Ubuntu is
seeing right past the on board RAID controller somehow?!

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Hmm... that one I'm not sure about, since I'm using software RAID on my box.
I know that when I built the RAID manually, I did have to go in to the
partition screen and select the RAID option for the installer to start the
array and let me partition from the array and not just from the drives. I'm
not sure if you need to do the same thing with hardware RAID. (IIRC, I had
to do that both for the RAID array and for the LVM partitions that I'd built
manually outside the installer.)

Have you tried popping out some of the RAM to see if that workaround helped
for you?

Kat