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I was told that ubuntu auto detected hard drives and put them on the desktop like how knoppix worked.

I ran dmesg in terminal and got

[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.22-14-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)) #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 (Ubuntu 2.6.22-14.46-generic)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ffc0000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000001ffc0000 - 000000001fff8000 (ACPI data)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000001fff8000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI NVS)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
[ 0.000000] 511MB LOWMEM available.
[ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 131008) 0 entries of 256 used
[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA 0 -> 4096
[ 0.000000] Normal 4096 -> 131008
[ 0.000000] HighMem 131008 -> 131008
[ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
[ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 131008
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 131008
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 991 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 125921 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMI 2.3 present.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP signature @ 0xC00FF980 checksum 0
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000FF980, 0014 (r0 AMI )
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 1FFF0000, 0030 (r1 D845PT BG84510A 20011113 MSFT 1011)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 1FFF1000, 0074 (r1 D845PT PT84510A 20011113 MSFT 1011)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 1FFE0000, 2F2C (r1 D845PT PT84510A 2 MSFT 100000B)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACS 1FFF8000, 0040
[ 0.000000] ACPI: APIC 1FFE2F2C, 0068 (r1 D845PT PT84510A 20011113 MSFT 1011)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 1FFE2F94, 0035 (r1 D845PT PT84510A 1 MSFT 100000B)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[ 0.000000] Processor #0 15:2 APIC version 20
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] disabled)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[ 0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
[ 0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
[ 0.000000] Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
[ 0.000000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
[ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap: 20000000:dec00000)
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 129985
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=82fe132b-db2c-4c31-a0a4-3fa8fbf3257f ro quiet splash
[ 0.000000] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
[ 0.000000] mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
[ 0.000000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[ 0.000000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[ 0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Detected 1994.266 MHz processor.
[ 15.062835] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[ 15.063316] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[ 15.063750] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 15.080678] Memory: 507788k/524032k available (2015k kernel code, 15712k reserved, 916k data, 364k init, 0k highmem)
[ 15.080694] virtual kernel memory layout:
[ 15.080695] fixmap : 0xfff4d000 - 0xfffff000 ( 712 kB)
[ 15.080697] pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
[ 15.080698] vmalloc : 0xe0800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 495 MB)
[ 15.080700] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xdffc0000 ( 511 MB)
[ 15.080701] .init : 0xc03e3000 - 0xc043e000 ( 364 kB)
[ 15.080703] .data : 0xc02f7d26 - 0xc03dce84 ( 916 kB)
[ 15.080704] .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc02f7d26 (2015 kB)
[ 15.080708] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[ 15.080760] SLUB: Genslabs=22, HWalign=64, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 15.160712] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3992.33 BogoMIPS (lpj=7984666)
[ 15.160746] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
[ 15.160755] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
[ 15.160772] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 15.160963] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 15.160980] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
[ 15.160984] CPU: L2 cache: 512K
[ 15.160987] CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
[ 15.160990] CPU: After all inits, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 0000b080 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 15.161009] Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
[ 15.161027] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[ 15.176894] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[ 15.177178] Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed
[ 15.177623] Early unpacking initramfs... done
[ 15.624706] ACPI: Core revision 20070126
[ 15.624779] ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found.
[ 15.627750] CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz stepping 04
[ 15.627799] Total of 1 processors activated (3992.33 BogoMIPS).
[ 15.627948] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
[ 15.628145] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[ 15.772210] Brought up 1 CPUs
[ 15.772379] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
[ 15.772464] Time: 19:18:21 Date: 04/15/108
[ 15.772503] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 15.772642] EISA bus registered
[ 15.772660] ACPI: bus type pci registered
[ 15.772827] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfda95, last bus=2
[ 15.772830] PCI: Using configuration type 1
[ 15.772833] Setting up standard PCI resources
[ 15.774705] ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
[ 15.779465] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
[ 15.779471] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
[ 15.779502] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
[ 15.785012] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
[ 15.785039] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
[ 15.785301] PCI quirk: region 0400-047f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
[ 15.785307] PCI quirk: region 0500-053f claimed by ICH4 GPIO
[ 15.785772] PCI: Firmware left 0000:02:08.0 e100 interrupts enabled, disabling
[ 15.786246] PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
[ 15.786281] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
[ 15.786400] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT]
[ 15.788253] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
[ 15.788379] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)
[ 15.788501] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[ 15.788624] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
[ 15.788745] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
[ 15.788867] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[ 15.788990] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
[ 15.789112] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15)
[ 15.789262] ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off)
[ 15.789305] ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off)
[ 15.789345] ACPI: Power Resource [URP2] (off)
[ 15.789382] ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off)
[ 15.789398] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[ 15.789421] pnp: PnP ACPI init
[ 15.789435] ACPI: bus type pnp registered
[ 15.792562] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
[ 15.792566] ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
[ 15.792573] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
[ 15.792652] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
[ 15.792657] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
[ 15.797732] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[ 15.797736] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[ 15.797843] pnp: 00:0b: iomem range 0x0-0x9ffff could not be reserved
[ 15.797848] pnp: 00:0b: iomem range 0xe0000-0xfffff could not be reserved
[ 15.797852] pnp: 00:0b: iomem range 0x100000-0x1fffffff could not be reserved
[ 15.797856] pnp: 00:0b: iomem range 0xfec00000-0xfec00fff could not be reserved
[ 15.800134] Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
[ 15.828278] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
[ 15.828281] IO window: disabled.
[ 15.828287] MEM window: fc900000-fe9fffff
[ 15.828292] PREFETCH window: e4600000-f46fffff
[ 15.828299] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
[ 15.828303] IO window: d000-dfff
[ 15.828310] MEM window: fea00000-feafffff
[ 15.828316] PREFETCH window: f4700000-f47fffff
[ 15.828337] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
[ 15.828355] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 15.868139] IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 15.868214] TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 196608 bytes)
[ 15.868397] TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 15.868522] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
[ 15.868525] TCP reno registered
[ 15.880258] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[ 16.331641] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
[ 16.760182] Freeing initrd memory: 7343k freed
[ 16.760723] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[ 16.760745] audit(1210879101.116:1): initialized
[ 16.763751] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[ 16.763836] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 16.763979] io scheduler noop registered
[ 16.763983] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[ 16.763986] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 16.764009] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[ 16.764067] Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
[ 16.764329] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[ 17.119271] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 17.158533] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
[ 17.158661] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 17.158770] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[ 17.160036] 00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[ 17.161135] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
[ 17.161458] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0
[ 17.161584] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f03:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[ 17.165396] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 17.165407] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[ 17.165703] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 17.165870] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[ 17.165914] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[ 17.166063] TCP cubic registered
[ 17.166079] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 17.166113] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
[ 17.166335] Magic number: 8:407:344
[ 17.166546] hash matches device tty61
[ 17.167185] Freeing unused kernel memory: 364k freed
[ 17.206857] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input1
[ 18.459978] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized<5>audit(1210879103.116:2): type=1505 info="AppArmor initialized" pid=1177
[ 18.469603] fuse init (API version 7.8)
[ 18.476635] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module.
[ 18.495704] ACPI Exception (processor_core-0783): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20070126]
[ 19.337437] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 19.346114] libata version 2.21 loaded.
[ 19.350946] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: version 2.11
[ 19.351035] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.1 to 64
[ 19.351150] scsi0 : ata_piix
[ 19.351216] scsi1 : ata_piix
[ 19.351356] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma 0x0001ffa0 irq 14
[ 19.351361] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma 0x0001ffa8 irq 15
[ 19.389570] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 19.389608] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 19.389641] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 19.391003] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
[ 19.399279] e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.17-k4-NAPI
[ 19.399284] e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation
[ 19.407614] ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
[ 19.513729] ata1.00: ATA-5: WDC WD1000BB-00CAA1, 17.07W17, max UDMA/100
[ 19.513736] ata1.00: 195371568 sectors, multi 16: LBA
[ 19.529692] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 19.699944] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[ 19.720051] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[ 20.236021] ata2.00: ATAPI: LITE-ON LTR-32123S, XS0R, max UDMA/33
[ 20.236030] ata2.01: ATAPI: LITEON DVD-ROM LTD163, GH5E, max UDMA/33
[ 20.399860] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 20.563698] ata2.01: configured for UDMA/33
[ 20.563878] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD1000BB-00C 17.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 20.564667] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM LITE-ON LTR-32123S XS0R PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 20.565341] scsi 1:0:1:0: CD-ROM LITEON DVD-ROM LTD163 GH5E PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 20.565897] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[D] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 20.565913] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
[ 20.565919] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: UHCI Host Controller
[ 20.566347] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 20.566387] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: irq 16, io base 0x0000ef40
[ 20.566960] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 20.567161] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 20.567174] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 20.596846] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 195371568 512-byte hardware sectors (100030 MB)
[ 20.598184] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 20.598190] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 20.598232] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 20.598328] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 195371568 512-byte hardware sectors (100030 MB)
[ 20.598343] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 20.598346] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 20.598372] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 20.598378] sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 >
[ 20.639662] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[ 20.645686] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 20.645723] scsi 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
[ 20.645750] scsi 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5
[ 20.667634] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.4[C] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 20.667652] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.4 to 64
[ 20.667657] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: UHCI Host Controller
[ 20.667692] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[ 20.667726] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: irq 17, io base 0x0000ef80
[ 20.667873] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 20.667911] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 20.667920] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 20.687638] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 34x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 20.687646] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 20.688037] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[ 20.690469] sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/48x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 20.690735] sr 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
[ 20.771669] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:08.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 20.795024] e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xfeaff000, irq 18, MAC addr 00:03:47:E9:E9:8E
[ 20.795656] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0a.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[ 20.795676] ohci_hcd 0000:02:0a.0: OHCI Host Controller
[ 20.795730] ohci_hcd 0000:02:0a.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[ 20.795755] ohci_hcd 0000:02:0a.0: irq 19, io mem 0xfeafc000
[ 20.881302] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 20.881352] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 20.881368] hub 3-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
[ 20.971661] Attempting manual resume
[ 20.971667] swsusp: Resume From Partition 8:5
[ 20.971670] PM: Checking swsusp image.
[ 20.971918] PM: Resume from disk failed.
[ 20.983685] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0a.1 -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 20.983706] ohci_hcd 0000:02:0a.1: OHCI Host Controller
[ 20.983753] ohci_hcd 0000:02:0a.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
[ 20.983772] ohci_hcd 0000:02:0a.1: irq 17, io mem 0xfeafd000
[ 21.023049] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 21.025736] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 21.025753] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 21.069053] usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 21.069099] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 21.069113] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 21.171280] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0a.2[C] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[ 21.171301] ehci_hcd 0000:02:0a.2: EHCI Host Controller
[ 21.171341] ehci_hcd 0000:02:0a.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
[ 21.177313] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 21.180221] hub 2-2:1.0: USB hub found
[ 21.183178] hub 2-2:1.0: 4 ports detected
[ 21.194876] ehci_hcd 0000:02:0a.2: irq 20, io mem 0xfeafec00
[ 21.194888] ehci_hcd 0000:02:0a.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
[ 21.195004] usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 21.195039] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 21.195051] hub 5-0:1.0: 5 ports detected
[ 21.299022] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0e.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[ 21.349955] ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[20] MMIO=[feafe000-feafe7ff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8]
[ 21.686393] usb 5-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
[ 21.828348] usb 5-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 22.621671] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[000108001001503a]
[ 30.095063] Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
[ 30.103853] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[ 30.108288] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 30.434518] iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
[ 30.437232] agpgart: Detected an Intel 845G Chipset.
[ 30.441206] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
[ 30.842816] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.01 (21-Jan-2007)
[ 30.844867] iTCO_wdt: failed to reset NO_REBOOT flag, reboot disabled by hardware
[ 30.844880] iTCO_wdt: No card detected
[ 31.149953] intel_rng: Firmware space is locked read-only. <4>intel_rng: If you can't or
[ 31.149958] don't want to <4>intel_rng: disable this in firmware setup, and <4>intel_rng: if
[ 31.149960] you are certain that your <4>intel_rng: system has a functional
[ 31.149962] RNG, try<4>intel_rng: using the 'no_fwh_detect' option.
[ 31.197721] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2
[ 31.476936] gameport: EMU10K1 is pci0000:02:0c.1/gameport0, io 0xdff0, speed 917kHz
[ 31.904975] input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse as /class/input/input3
[ 31.908719] parport_pc 00:09: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
[ 31.908776] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
[ 32.038563] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[ 32.043547] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
[ 32.044001] NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-7185 Mon Apr 2 18:29:54 PDT 2007
[ 32.657678] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0c.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[ 33.674869] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[ 33.766587] Adding 1510068k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1510068k
[ 34.085504] EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
[ 35.341771] input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input4
[ 35.348171] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[ 35.397916] input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input5
[ 35.404174] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN]
[ 35.419916] No dock devices found.
[ 37.331667] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 37.427117] e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
[ 37.645592] audit(1210879122.745:3): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="a" denied_mask="a" name="/dev/tty" pid=4601 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd"
[ 37.724825] apm: BIOS not found.
[ 37.996438] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module.
[ 38.211558] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
[ 38.211743] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[ 38.211747] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 38.211753] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 38.229172] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
[ 38.229180] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 38.308103] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 38.308255] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 38.308260] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
[ 39.962693] agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
[ 39.963105] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
[ 39.963365] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
[ 40.180180] agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
[ 40.180743] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
[ 40.181005] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
[ 42.483185] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 45.118642] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 45.118896] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 55.205614] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 693.144056] usb 2-2.2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[ 693.266898] usb 2-2.2: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub
[ 693.373931] usb 2-2.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 693.498549] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
[ 693.573060] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[ 693.573223] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
[ 693.579524] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[ 693.579756] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 693.579953] usb-storage: device found at 3
[ 693.579956] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 693.580188] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 693.580319] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 698.574769] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 701.323588] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access WDC WD32 00AAJB-00TYA0 00.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 701.330530] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors (320073 MB)
[ 701.335541] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 701.335550] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[ 701.335553] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 701.341550] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors (320073 MB)
[ 701.346539] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 701.346549] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[ 701.346552] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 701.346560] sdb: sdb1
[ 701.360665] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[ 701.360732] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0

is there a command I should type to get ubuntu to detect hard drive?

Thank you for help

Khabi found the correct section of your dmesg, and your drive is indeed being detected. It's an external USB drive, correct? Try doing this: disconnect the drive and cold boot the computer. After Ubuntu has booted, fire up the drive and attach it to the computer. You should, if everything is working correctly, have it mounted automatically. if not, you probably need to create a manual mount point for it. But try the above first and see what happens.

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