Question about linux and AMD based chipsets/onboard raid

[Stephen]

I have an AMD based chiset and i am trying to get ubuntu to boot right
now and it is stalling, and i am having trouble ironing out what is
going on.

I have onbaord raid drives attached to the onboard raid chipset
(SB710) however i am not intending to install to those drives the
drive i wish to install to is actually a SATA connected single drive
but i am having the worst time getting Ubuntu 12.04 to even finish its
boot cycle. and im not getting allot of feedback.

The errors i am getting are ata_id[336]: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for
'/dev/sdb': Invalid argument
- this is with all Raid disks disconnected and raid turned off in
bios. just a single SATA HDD

I get one of the two following errors if i have raid disks attached

A similar entry as above comes up or i get
udevd[167] inotify_add_watch(6, /dev/dm-1, 10) failed: No Such file or directory

the most promising option i have so far is booting with nodmraid but
it seems to just hang and go no place after detecting my CDrom devices

This is rather perplexing overall.

Ideally i would like my 2 onboard raids to be connected running
windows and then let linux run amok on my extra sata hdd but it either
is really pissed off in a way i cannot figure out or it really does
not like that port.

Anyone have any thoughts?
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rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen