I am having similar problems on an smd64 karmic installation. I bought two new 1.5 TB Western Digital Caviar Green drives and they do not show up consistently under ubuntu. (One of the drives shows up sometimes at random). I am attaching the files you asked for.
** Attachment added: "computer_details.tar.bz2" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36444629/computer_details.tar.bz2 -- SATA Hard drives not detected https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/396738 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs