HD Not showing

[merlin371]

Hey guys I have a small issue which seems to be really wierd with Ubuntu, I have 4 disks 2x120gb 1x250gb and 1x500gb, during install I can only see the 500gb HD and none of the other, I get an LVM drive during install for 250gb but that's no good (see attachment)
Now if i run the install with "nodmraid" the raid goes away but it only sees the 500gb I can however see the other drives in GPartion if i let the installer go onto live Linux, if i then run the install from live the HD still doesn't show, I tried almost everything I change the sata connections to a different place, I've unplugged a few HD to see if there was conflicts and still nothing.

What's even more wierd however is that this only happens in Ubuntu, any other distro I just pick nodmraid and all the drives show.

Edit: Also should say my motherboard is a MSI P43 NEO-F, the 2 120gb HD are Western digital the other 2 are maxtor.

[Segfault]

Does Ubuntu see all drives when you turn off BIOS RAID? (It's no use anyway with Linux-only systems.)

[merlin371]

Motherboard doesnt do Raid, it's only got 6 sata ports but they dont make a raid, well not as i can see, i tried different settings, but now it's set to treat sata drives as extra IDE

[merlin371]

Right did a bit of testing with GParted now, GParted does see the drive and I can make a partition with it, however I cant format the partition at all

[rokytnji]

It should give a error on why it can't format the drive. Like "Kernel Error, Kernel can't read drive. Resource is busy or being used" or some such (general quote from memory since this happened to me once).

Got around this by booting up a Parted magic CD and formatted partition on drive with it instead of using internal Gparted.

[merlin371]

This is what i get

GParted 0.5.1

Libparted 2.2
Create Primary Partition #1 (ext4, 111.79 GiB) on /dev/sdd 00:00:01 ( ERROR )

create empty partition 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )

path: /dev/sdd1
start: 63
end: 234436544
size: 234436482 (111.79 GiB)
set partition type on /dev/sdd1 00:00:01 ( SUCCESS )

new partition type: ext4
create new ext4 file system 00:00:00 ( ERROR )

mkfs.ext4 -j -O extent -L "" /dev/sdd1

mke2fs 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010)
/dev/sdd1 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here!

even if i were to format it before I install Ubuntu it wouldn't work, the second 120gb is already formatted as ext4 and it doesn't recognize it at install time, also i cant mount it either while ubuntu is running either, it's like there's something missing on the kernel that stops the HDs from working, seeing that this only happens with Ubuntu

[rokytnji]

/dev/sdd1 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here!

sounds pretty close to my statement

Like "Kernel Error, Kernel can't read drive. Resource is busy or being used" or some such (general quote from memory since this happened to me once).

[merlin371]

I dont doubt that, but even if i were to format that HD it still wouldn't show during install time, like i said i have another HD that is partitioned and formatted already (screenshot on attachement) and it still doesnt show up during install, it wont even let me mount it because there is no /dev/sda1 on the /dev folder at all.

[rokytnji]

Type

mount

in terminal and see what it shows.