I am having the same issue on my macbook. 9.04 beta is using the
ata_piix driver instead of the AHCI driver. As others mentioned earlier
in this thread, the problem seems to be that the Apple bios emulator
puts the controler into legacy mode (for which the ata_piix probably is
the correct driver). ( http://forum.onmac.net/showthread.php?t=2739 has
a reasonable summery of the problem and a solution). In a previous
install of ubuntu, I had tried the fix using the modified stage1 grub
and it worked perfectly fine. However, I would rather not install code
into my MBR from a random untrusted webpage again and thus I would
prefer, If ubuntu could provide a correctly patched stage1 for grub that
reenables the AHCI mode on the MacBook. It is also necessary to make
sure that you have the correct one (either RAID version or the AHCI
version) and I wasn't sure which version the ones found on the various
websites are.

Would it be possible for Ubuntu to provide this modified grub and
perhaps add some comments about this issue on the documentation pages
for running Ubuntu on a intel mac?

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ata_piix used instead of AHCI for Mac Pro
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96692
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