On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:57:43 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>> My motherboard uses the nVidia nForce 4 chipset, and as a result many
>>> Linux live CDs can't see any of the SATA drives. However, they all
>>> find the PATA ones just fine.
>> 
>> Weird, my HP system here has that same chipset on it, and the live
>> discs do OK with it - SATA drive works beautifully with openSUSE 11.0
>> running on it, too.
> 
> When I tried this, openSUSE 11.0 did not exist.

Well, as Darren said, 3 months is an eternity in the Linux world.  :-)

> (IOW, now that it's no longer a brand new chipset, maybe drivers are
> more widely available.)

That most certainly is the case. :-)

Jim

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