Actually the above suggestion worked fine for my hardware:

pci=nomsi

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Nathaniel W. Turner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> It might be helpful to see the output of lsmod while running under a
> kernel that sees all drives and one that sees only a subset.  (I could
> be way off here, but in Bryce's case at least, it sounds like there are
> 2 different chipsets involved, and in the new kernel, only one of them
> has a driver loaded.  Identifying the chipset or driver involved might
> help narrow down the problem space.)
>
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> Regression in SATA drive detection
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/206901
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> Status in "linux" source package in Ubuntu: In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> I previously had Feisty installed on my primary computer and recently
> decided to test out the Hardy beta.  As my /home directory is on a separate
> partition, I chose to do a clean install of / to the boot partition.  Much
> to surprise, 4 of the 7 physical hard drives installed in the machine do not
> appear to be recognized.  The system is a Supermicro workstation with dual
> AMD Opterons with an Nvidia MCP2200Pro chipset (NFORCE-CK804).
>
> "ls /dev/sd*" lists sda through sdg in Feisty but only lists sda, sdb, and
> sdc in Hardy.
>
> Testing with a Gutsy Live CD (2.6.22 kernel) reveals that 4 hard drives
> again aren't recognized.  The same behavior is also seen when booting with
> Fedora 8 (2.6.23 kernel), however, all 7 drives are present when booting
> with a Fedora 9 Beta Live CD (2.6.25rcx kernel).
>
> As best as I can tell, a regression occurred somewhere between Feisty and
> Gutsy (between kernel 2.6.20 and 2.6.22) and still persists through kernel
> 2.6.24 but appears to be fixed in the current release candidate 2.6.25
> kernel.
>
> I am somewhat of a Linux neophyte, but I can follow instructions well.  If
> additional output is needed, let me know.  For an LTS release, it would be
> nice if Hardy works properly on machines with numerous drives, especially
> since it previously worked in Feisty.
>
> Attached are output from "dmesg", "lspci-vvnn", "ls /dev/sd*", "cat
> /proc/proc_version_signature", and "uname -a" for Hardy Beta, Feisty, and
> Fedora 9 beta.
>


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