Enabling SATA Raid in the bios allowed the adaptac bios to offer the right configuration to the kernel. new lsmod and dmesg in the attachement.
I now have sda/sdb vs broken/broken. ** Attachment added: "dmesg/lsmod/lshw" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6580369/bug2.txt -- Unusual Boot Messages https://launchpad.net/bugs/87477 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs