The problem reported above of not being able to mount/access the second or third SATA hard drives which are attached to the same controller has been resolved via the following procedure:
1.Remove all partitions from the first SATA drive. 2.Set BIOS to Enhanced IDE. 3.Install XP-sp2. The install procedure will blue screen if it discovers that AHCI mode was enabled, so IDE mode was required to get past that Microshaft foolishness. 4.Set BIOS to AHCI to allow the controller to do what it was designed to do. 5.Using XP, delete all logical drives from the extended partition on the second SATA drive. 6.Using XP, delete the extended partition on the second SATA drive. 7.Using XP, create an extended partition on the second SATA drive. 8.Using XP, create a logical drive on the extended partition on the second SATA hard drive. 9.Using XP, format that logical drive. I chose 16k but cluster size should not be important, the default for NTFS could have been used. 10.Restore data to the logical drive from where it was backed up. 11.Repeat the steps used on the second SATA hard drive on the third SATA hard drive. 12.Navigate to Places and Removable Media in Ubuntu 9.10 13.Observe the Labels on the second and third SATA drives assigned by the format process. 14.Provide credentials and access each of those drives. Apparently the NTFS processing in 9.10 is more thorough concerning the Microshaft NTFS specification than XP-sp2. Please mark this bug report closed. XP-sp2 improperly created/formatted the sole logical drive in the extended partition of each of the suspect SATA hard drives. -- Problems mounting second or third SATA hard drive 2009-11-23 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/487318 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
