I made it to the partition screen where I set it to have a 480GB EXT4 with a 20GB linux-swap. Before clicking next I ran fdisk -l upon which it spewed out a bunch of error messages (can't remember what they said off-hand), it then ended up erroring with a input/output error message when I clicked next. The drive is now undetected even in BIOS. I put the jumper back in place, without any effect
Putting the disk in one of the other machines (different hardware) gave the same input/output error during read /dev/sda. After rebooting it was still detectable on the same machine. Wouldn't make it to the partition part of the installation instead it would be stuck at loading (as indicated by mouse cursor), using administrative tools still worked so it wasn't simply hung. When I looked at it having booted in with a live CD and tried to look at the disk in GParted it would get stuck at "scanning for devices". Once I managed to get past it being stuck (by specifying gparted /dev/sda). It had a 50gb unknown block (and the rest was free I think).
S.M.A.R.T was saying it has 2700 faulty sectors, which seemed a bit excessive and thought it might be confused. I formatted the drive with 480GB EXT4 and 20GB linux-swap successfully. Then attempted to install getting past the partition screen and into localization setup. At about 75% of copying files it errored saying it couldn't copy a file and that it could be because the drive was faulty. The machine seem think that Ubunut was already installed (after the initial botched installation). How can I regain access to the drives to keep going on this joyous quest of failing to install Ubuntu? I have attempted to switch the computer to use AHCI on a hunch that it might make it easier to detect the drives (which it didn't.) Question Fails at 25% with The ext4 file system creation in partition#1 of SCSI2 (0,0,0) (sda) failed. I was able to install Ubuntu on a third drive (Seagate Barracuda ST3160815AS 160GB) and boot into it. I'm impressed I have two identical models that are giving different error messages. SeaTools suggested I could use a DOS version to repair broken sectors, burn a CD but it wasn't able to repair them. #Seagate seatools dos no erase download.
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