@Actiu: Do you get an error message like this? http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38337359/install3.jpg - If not then I think you are seeing a different problem. I have marked your bug 503848 as not-a-duplicate to prevent confusion.
@Jamin: Hmm, just as the SMART data said, the drive has no bad sectors. (Side note: Old_Age just means that this value will be high when the drive is old, and Pre-fail means that this value will increase when the drive is failing.) But this error (dmesg-install2.log) suggests that either the drive or the controller must be doing something wrong. [ 525.000074] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [ 525.000092] ata1.00: cmd e7/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 [ 525.000094] res 40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) [ 525.000098] ata1.00: status: { DRDY } [ 530.004017] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) [ 535.040086] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset [ 535.040101] ata1: soft resetting link [ 535.224838] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/66 [ 535.224852] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 [ 535.224894] ata1: EH complete [ 535.243216] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 38039071 I don't get why ext3 does not trigger it, but this error is independent of the filesystem. Faulty hardware of a ATA driver bug? -- Unable to install using ext4 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/512002 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs