Finally got fed up enough with this that i went into the case and switched the master and slave drive around, and its working now.
Of Note: the drive that was causing the problem was missing its jumper. It had three slots one master one slave one cable select, so jumper off was not a valid option. I put the jump for that one on to the slave pins and moved the jumper on the other to be master. Also I noticed that if i waited a while after starting to do the: sudo hdparm -w /dev/hda sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/hda commands the computer would occasionally lock up when i executed the first command. -- hdc: status error: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223780 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