{"id":1048,"date":"2009-12-19T00:18:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T04:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2009-12-19T00:19:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T04:19:10","slug":"1048","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=1048","title":{"rendered":"Linux Bug #257790"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never thought I&#8217;d say anything like this, but&#8230;I may have run afoul of <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/linux\/+bug\/257790\">Linux bug #257790<\/a>, &#8220;Kernel does not recognize Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200AAJS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0 GB\/s Hard Drive (2nd Generation)&#8221;. I recently bought a new 7200 RPM hard drive (guess which model!) for my main desktop system, which had come with an older Seagate 5400 RPM unit as the primary bootable drive. I migrated my Windows XP install over to the new WD drive without any trouble. But when I go to do a clean Linux 9.10 install, the installer does not see the WD drive. It does see the secondary drive in the system, which is a 5400 RPM Seagate 750 GB unit. But the WD? Installer no see.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, gparted has no trouble seeing the WD, and even resized the Windows partition there to make room for two additional Linux partitions. However, when I go to install Karmic in the new partition on sda2, the installer doesn&#8217;t see the sda device at all&#8230;<em>except<\/em> when I check the button telling the installer partitioner to erase the whole drive and install Linux on the entire thing. Then sda magically appears. At that point, when I re-check the option to install Windows and Linux side by side, the sda device vanishes from the device selection pane at the top of the installer partitioner window.<\/p>\n<p>While sniffing around the Web looking for insights, I ran across Linux Bug #257790, simply because it names the precise model of drive that I just bought. Supposedly, that bug was fixed for the 9.10 Karmic release at the end of October, but evidently the installer still has some reservations about certain WD drives&#8230;like the one I now have. I&#8217;m tempted to download and install Fedora to see if I get better service, but if any of you Linux gurus have any suggestions I&#8217;ll certainly hear them. I do not want to go back to my older (slower) drive, nor do I want to wait for Lucid Lynx (V10.04) due in April. I can&#8217;t imagine that this is not a fixable problem. Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never thought I&#8217;d say anything like this, but&#8230;I may have run afoul of Linux bug #257790, &#8220;Kernel does not recognize Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200AAJS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0 GB\/s Hard Drive (2nd Generation)&#8221;. I recently bought a new 7200 RPM hard drive (guess which model!) for my main desktop system, which had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15,59,14],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daybook","tag-hardware","tag-linux","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}