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Wayne Werner
Asked: 2011-07-14 20:06:10 +0800 CST

Installing Ubuntu on a SATA drive

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I'm trying to install Ubuntu 10.04 on a SATA drive on a desktop computer. It's a 2 TB hitachi. If I go through the standard install process, I get an fsync error. The drive showed up in the installer. When I swapped to the terminal and did an fdisk -l, it showed the other drives, but instead of sda, I got another error message that was also in dmesg:

[  243.128549] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 3907029152
[  243.128648] sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled error code
[  243.128652] sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[  243.128656] sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 e8 e0 87 20 00 00 08 00

dmesg had about 250 copies of those four lines.

I checked this question, and even checked the BIOS settings, but I couldn't find anything helpful, so I turn to the mighty collective wisdom of the SE network. Any ideas about what's wrong? Need more info?

Thanks!

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Apparently the problem was that I was trying to install off of a USB stick. I'm guessing that there was some problem with /dev/sda when the installer booted off of /dev/sdb.

    My only guess is that there's some conflict between the serial-ness of the two. I burned a CD (had to use the USB to do that since my other computer has no optical drives!) and it's installing just fine!

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