It would appear that this particular disk has previously been used on an nvidia controller and the metadata remains on the disk. Try this to delete the nvidia metadata:
sudo dmraid -E -f nvidia /dev/sda You may need to repeat for /dev/sdb. -- dmraid fails to properly recognise VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/118956 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs