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gparted package

Hard disk not visible in gparted and Ubuntu installer in live cd

Bug #63642 reported by BeN
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #60868: gparted does not detect sdb. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gparted

This bug appears only on Edgy live cd.

While editing partitions (during the installer or simply in running gparted from the menu), only 2 disk are visible (the primary slave isn't visible). Master and slave disk are the same (Maxtor DiamondMax 9, UDMA 133) and are ok (under other OS and S.M.A.R.T.).

I have 3 HDD and 1 DVD burner all connected in P-ATA.

(System spec : nforce 2; AMD Athlon XP, Geforce 5700, 1 GB DDR3200)

This bug appears only while editing manually the partitions. In "automatic" configuration there is no problem.

Partitions (of the hiden disk) are visible in the next step (mounting point).

This bug doesn't exist whith the dapper live cd.

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BeN (b-e-n) wrote :

I 've forgot to mention that this bug was present in knot 2, 3 and beta ISO.

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RuiP (ruipais) wrote :

Same problem. (Knot 3 and beta)
The bizarre thing is that it seems that gparted can't see b drives (hdb, sdb) but with more than 2 of the same kind it show others normally (in my case, from 3 hdd only hda and hdc are detected/visible).

Another point, don't know if related, fdisk sees all drives correctly but cfdisk don't. It complains of exactly the same drivers saying that partitions are overlaping...

RuiP (ruipais)
Changed in gparted:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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BeN (b-e-n) wrote :

Only b drive is hidden for me too.

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