Aggravated and confused

heres my system

asrock 939Dual-SATA2 link to mobo

AMD Athlon64 4000+

2gb WINTEC ddr 400 ram

maxtor 40gb sata 3.0g/s HDD

Western digital 500 GB sata 3.0g/s HDD

BFG NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT OC 256MB PCIe
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I have tried installing
ubuntu 8.10
ubuntu 8.10 alt
ubuntu 7.10 fiesty
ubuntu gutsy
ubuntu 5.10 (had it laying around)
kubuntu 8.10
debian 40rs
fedora 10
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it freezes while attempting to format partitions on all ubuntus like below

partions formating

5%

creating ext3 file system for / in partition #1 of scsi1 (0,0,0)
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I have also tried using Gpart and it just freezes claiming kernal sync error. I also tried DBAN which starts then pops up stuff over top its run screen and freezes.

Some one previously mentioned a jmicron controller which I have no idea what that is or how to fix it. Others have pointed out that since its sata it shouldn't read as scsi.

What should I do besides breakdown spend $90 and go buy WinXP

Paramethis,

I'll suggest to clean the harddisk first (formatt Windows) and then try installing Ubuntu. There isn't much information provided by you here. Kindly explain us, wht OS your system is currently in?

If you'r system is already having Linux flavor installed, then first the cmd "sync" before you start installing Ubuntu..

Check yoru hardware, most of the time it's also concern with RAM and HDD cables if not plugged in properly..

Don't create more partitions, / /home /tmp /boot /usr is enough. Create atleast 500MB of /boot partition..

Hope, this helps.. Or paste us the whole errors please..

i was running a bootleg xp which i wiped due to trojans and spyware. i know its not my hardware because i have tried installing on both hard drives unplugging both so only one is pluged in. used 2 different cdroms for install. all bios settings are standard. and windows will install fine no problems but i dont want another bootlegged xp. BTW all bios setting are normal nothing weird or odd. the error was only on Gpart on everything else just results in freeze.

Have you tried other Ubuntu media? I mean other CD for installation..?

yes i have tried 5 different ubuntus and 3 other distros as stated in my first post

This may be because you have a lot of partitions or a partition which is confusing the installer.

How many partitions are you creating n of what size?

It is possible that this is a problem with the SATA2 chip. According to the specs, found here, it is using a jmb360 chip made by jmicron.

The supported OS's that the manufacturer list include all new ones. Check the PDF found here:
Product_JMB360

Their driver page has Linux drivers, but none for the most current versions.
Driver

I looked in the source of a recent kernel (2.6.26) and can only find the pata_jmicron driver. It is possible that it uses the sata_ahci driver. I think that you may need to enable AHCI in the BIOS. Then you may be able to install to the disk.