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I'm trying to install Ubuntu 10.04 on a SATA drive on a desktop computer. It's a 2 TB hitachi. If I go through the standard install process, I get an fsync error. The drive showed up in the installer. When I swapped to the terminal and did an fdisk -l, it showed the other drives, but instead of sda, I got another error message that was also in dmesg:

[  243.128549] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 3907029152
[  243.128648] sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled error code
[  243.128652] sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[  243.128656] sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 e8 e0 87 20 00 00 08 00

dmesg had about 250 copies of those four lines.

I checked this question, and even checked the BIOS settings, but I couldn't find anything helpful, so I turn to the mighty collective wisdom of the SE network. Any ideas about what's wrong? Need more info?

Thanks!

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    I suggest you check drive for hardware defects with Hitachi Drive Fitness Test, check cables etc.. Is this a new drive? What was on it before, how was it formatted? What BIOS settings did you try? – Takkat Jul 14 '11 at 06:42
  • It's a brand new drive. I'm suspecting something rather than the drive, since I have another drive that also had the same error. I'll get the BIOS info up this morning or this evening. – Wayne Werner Jul 14 '11 at 11:36
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    Might be a bad cable. did you try using a different one? – Thomas Ward Jul 14 '11 at 18:50
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    DID_BAD_TARGET means there is no such drive. Look for an earlier error that might have led to the drive going away. It should mention ata. – psusi Jul 14 '11 at 19:39
  • I swapped out the cable, still no dice. Turns out that booting from the USB caused the problems. Currently it's installing from a CD. Any clues why that would be? – Wayne Werner Jul 15 '11 at 01:20

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Apparently the problem was that I was trying to install off of a USB stick. I'm guessing that there was some problem with /dev/sda when the installer booted off of /dev/sdb.

My only guess is that there's some conflict between the serial-ness of the two. I burned a CD (had to use the USB to do that since my other computer has no optical drives!) and it's installing just fine!

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