Bug#277177: installer hangs in "detecting filesystems"

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <rociobarroso@att.net.mx>]

This morning after leaving the system off I booted and one disk is gone. 
I don't think it is the disk but the mobo or something.

I don't think this problem is the installer's, but of course I don't 
know the installer ;-)

hdb is now unavailable to me. I am running on hda8 with 2.6.7. It cannot 
access hdb. When I reboot I think I will see garbage in the bios field 
for the primary slave.

Hugo