Oops, I forgot to say that it worked after I switched back to IDE after
doing the above
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Dell Inspiron 530 SATA drive not detected in IDE mode
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153702
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I don't know if this is the exact same issue but I managed to "fix"
Ubuntu 8.04 on my Dell Inspiron 530 by first switching to RAID, so I
could boot into Ubuntu, then forcing the SATA driver to load before USB
driver by following the instructions at this site:
http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/U