Well, nevermind. I just went with 9.04. Also, I suspect the CD I was
using with 8.10 was corrupt is some subtle way. (It did pass the cd
test, however)
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Fail to detect Western Digital hard drive on install
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291757
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Upon trying to install Ubuntu Server 8.10 (lts) as a clean install over
an old version of Ubuntu Desktop 7.04, I am getting this exact issue.
My drive is a WDC WD200EB, and my IDE Device is correctly identified in
7.04 as 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE which seems to be a bog-standard Intel
IDE chipset
