I was also getting this. On the live cd I uninstalled the dmraid package, restarted the installer and now sda shows.
-- ubiquity partition step does not show some hard drives https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/459054 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
