This is occuring to me as well. My brand new desktop is a very big paperweight. The patching regime required to get it working seems rediculous, yet the patch itself is minor to the OS (as far as I can tell).
See: http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.aspx?catid=28&threadid=72836&enterthread=y Please help! -- sata_via kernel module lacks support for VIA VT8237A southbridge SATA in Dapper https://launchpad.net/bugs/53615 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
