[SOLVED] Western Digital WD1002FBYS

tmel173 · 04-17-2015, 12:33 PM

I have a SATA Drive western Digital 1TB Disk I would like to install on a Ubuntu server 12.04. I cant seem to find the drivers on the WD site.

MQMan · 04-17-2015, 12:50 PM

Drivers are for the controller the disk is attached to, not the disk.

Unless you have something really weird and wonderful, Ubuntu already has all the drivers you could need.

Cheers.

veerain · 04-17-2015, 10:51 PM

In linux most of the drivers are provided with the default kernel. So you won't need one usually. Have you tried installing Ubuntu to drive or not?

John VV · 04-18-2015, 12:59 PM

that drive is DEFAULT formatted in the factory to the MICROSOFT!! Windows NTFS
with MICROSOFT tools ( .exe programs) in a hidden "recovery" Microsoft windows ONLY partition

reformat the WHOLE!!!!!!!!! drive to ext4 using a GPT table

Gparted live CD is GREAT tool for that

then

just plug in the drive
ubuntu will AUTO do what is needed

tmel173 · 04-19-2015, 08:52 AM

I think then my issue is something else. I can boot from an Ubuntu flash drive but even there I don't see the drive. Is there a problem perhaps as someone mentioned I need to check the controller drivers?
My Ubuntu installation failed on the step where it is selecting the HDD and I get several compatible drivers which are not listing my drive.
My hardware is a ucs C200 M1 if that helps.

John VV · 04-19-2015, 01:07 PM

are you running ubuntu on a usb thumb drive on a computer that has windows installed

if this is a thumb usb drive that has ubuntu installed on it

how did you make the thumb drive

tmel173 · 04-19-2015, 11:47 PM

So I have a cd as well and still doesn't install past the hard drive detection. I only tried to the usb to test and that didn't help detect the hdd.

veerain · 04-20-2015, 11:50 PM

Post the output of 'lspci'. Perhaps the driver for your sata controller is not present.

tmel173 · 04-22-2015, 05:21 AM

it was my drives that were not fully inserted making the connectors not have a connection therefore no hdd were found.