I have just received a new PC for home/office use. It is a sweet machine boosting a Athlon 3000+ with an Asrock 939 Dual SATA II mobo. I have the HDD connected to the Sata II connection and successfully installed windows XP on it (it did require a driver though) but Ubuntu fails miserably on this machine.
I did some research and I found out that it is most likely a problem with the combination of a IDE DVD drive and a SATA Harddrive. I have exactly the same problem with my own PC (a MSI NeoV-2 with 2 IDE HardDrives and 2 IDE optical drives, SATA support is onboard but disabled in the BIOS) so I doubt it is just a problem with the combination of these two. I am extremely disappointed in Ubuntu for failing to fix these critical bugs. As we speak I am downloading the installation CD for Dapper Drake if that fails I will have to keep Windows XP on those two machines. I suggest that if Ubuntu wants to fix Bug #1 <https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/1>they start by fixing this bug. Terry Talim Email: [email protected] My articles: http://geologyonlinecourses.com/career-information-on-mineralogists/ and http://socialworkdegreesonline.net/lcsw-counseling.html
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