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Submitted by colm on 07/18/2009 – Made popular on 07/18/2009

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I have tested this with Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty. Drive works out of the box, it reads and writes all kinds of discs fine.

I recently turned my 7 year old HP Pavilion a1030e desktop into a Ubuntu media server. From what I could find on the HP website it contains a K8S-LA (Salmon) motherboard. I'm planning on adding a "Western Digital 1 TB Caviar Blue SATA III 7200 RPM 32 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive - WD10EALX" to the default 80 GB HDD.

My desktop is about seven years old with an older ASUS motherboard. I have one Western Digital Caviar 160 GB IDE HDD, one Western Digital Caviar 250 GB SATA HDD, and two Seagate Barracuda 750 GB SATA HDDs installed that work perfectly with Windows XP.

I have tested this with Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty. CPU runs without problems, Cool'n'quiet function works out of the box.

I have tested this with Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty. Monitor works flawlessly, and out of the box. The native resolution 1920x1080 is supported.

Tested with Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty. Onboard HD audio: I only tested the analog input/output part. Works great, the system volume control applet works flawlessly, the sliders are correct. Can record from selected source. Front audio panel works. Onboard...

I am about to buy these parts for my own build and was wondering if these things be compatible with Ubuntu:

RAM: G.SKILL HK 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel

PSU: CORSAIR CMPSU-400CX 400W ATX12V V2.2 80

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ext4: error loading journal 30 weeks 4 days ago

I have an external hard drive with two partitions: A small FAT32 which is mostly empty and works fine and a large ext4 with tons of data, most of which isn't backed up.

The ext4 is visible, but can't be mounted. I get an "error loading journal" error. The drive is a Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB. Roughly 30GB of that is FAT32 and the rest is the ext4.

I am using Ubuntu 12.04. It was working fine. The other day, it just stopped loading and repeating itself. Reinstalation did nothing. So I resorted to the proven method of pounding the s**t out of the computer and now it works. However, Ubuntu will only load from the CD, not from the HD. If I set the HD as the primary, it just loops again.

I have a Western Digital HD. They are crap.