Gunner, I know the feeling. When I posted about my problem, Alain Knauf suggested the following: << In the "Cho[o]se hard disk controller module" menu, cho[o]se OTHER, and then you get proposed a larger menu

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Maybe the driver you need is in the extended list. If not, then a custom image is the only solution that I see. The complete command that I used was: /usr/lib/udpcast/makeImage -c udpcd.iso -k /boot/vmlinuz -m "e1000e ata_generic pata_acpi" -C udpcd.cfg --fullbox The image generator is not so hard to install. Cheers, bert 2010/1/14 Gunner Poulsen <gp@lyngbjerggaardskolen.dk>

I tested that i could mount the hard disc in a Ubuntu live CD. I can, but I don't have the courage to make a new cd. I think it uses the libata module, but it doesn't work.

Gunner

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:50:59 +0100, Bert Van Vreckem wrote

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Dear Gunner,

I had exactly the same problem with 42 shiny new Dell boxes that spent their first months as very expensive paper weights...

In the end, I took a Linux kernel from a standard Fedora installation and put it into a Udpcast CD boot image using the image creator [http://udpcast.linux.lu/mkimagedoc.html]. To know which (S) ATA drivers you need exactly, boot Linux from a live cd and do an lsmod in a terminal. In my case, it was pata_ahci and ata_generic (IIRC). The busybox shell is no longer functioning on my new boot cd's, but at least I can clone again...

Held og lykke. Let me know how it went and whether I can be of further assistance...

bert

2010/1/14 Gunner Poulsen <gp@lyngbjerggaardskolen.dk> Dear friends I use UDP-cast in my work as administrator on a school. It has worked brilliant for years :-) Now we have got 35 new labtops that I have to clone. But UDP-Cast can't find the harddisk :-( The hard discs are: ATA Hitachi hts542525k9sa00 UDP-cast just comes up with OTHER as harddisk partions to clone. Can anyone help? I beleve it is a fault in the driver.

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