update: turns out one of the SATA controllers on my board was fried.
Swapped the controller the drive was plugged into, everything's working
now, sorry for the interruption!
note to self: buy new motherboard
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Okay, so, I've been trying
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Okay, so, I've been trying to install Ubuntu 10.04 repeatedly over the
past few days, and been running into the same err