Wim,
I'm not very familiar with ubuntu, so am probably not the best source
for advice. Your controller device appears to be some dell which
differs slightly from the one I have, although they both were using
ata_piix. It's possible that the driver doesn't have such big issues
with some
Here's some info which may (or may not?) help track this down.
In the past 6 days, I've installed ubuntu jaunty 9.04 64bit on a new
T500 laptop no less than 6 times. As others here report, I would start
doing updates/upgrades, and shortly afterward would run into various
issues which appear to