Connie Sieh wrote:
> Can you send a lspci of this system.
>
> On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Karl Misselt 
> wrote:
>
>   
>> Kuo-Rong Lei wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi, all:
>>> We get a new PC use ASUS P5B motherboard and it's chipset is Intel P965.
>>> Now we try to install SL4.4 , but system can not find hard disk to
>>> partition to install.
>>> Is there any one know how to install ??
>>> Thanks. Kite
>>>       
>> sorry to follow up on my own reply - the ASUS P5B looks to have
>> a JMicron JMB363 SATA controller onboard. I've no idea if there's
>>     
>
> I guess I knew that the JMicron Ide controller did not work but did not 
> know about the SATA not working.
>
>   

My fingers keep hitting send too quickly... The P5B actually seems to have
a couple SATA controllers: 

Southbridge - 4 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s ports
JMicron® JMB363 PATA and SATA controller
 - 1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66 for up to 2 PATA devices
 - 1 x Internal SATA 3.0 Gb/s port
 - 1 x External SATA 3.0 Gb/s port (SATA On-the-Go)

So the JM363 might not be the problem.   You might want to make sure
that your drive(s) are hanging off the Southbridge rather than the JMicron.
I don't have one around here to play with, but that's another thing to 
check.
I would guess that if your drive is hanging off the Southbridge, it might
be possible to build a driver disk for it.  
Looking at http://gentoo-wiki.com/ASUS_P5B_Deluxe it looks like you should
be able to install if your disk is not hanging off the JMicron: 

00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HB (ICH8) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)

The mahcine I have here with a P965 chipset has: 

00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corp. 82801HR/HO/HH (ICH8R/DO/DH) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)

And I don't know off hand if the differences are enough to create 
your problem...

-Karl





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