On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Connie Sieh wrote:

> You could try the  "all-generic-ide" boot line option.
> 
> How do you have the bios set for SATA.

You should put all the serial ata drives on the intel sata
controller(ich8) and not the Jmicron one.  You need to set the intel sata
bios settings to AHCI.

-connie sieh
 > 
> -connie sieh
> On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, 
> Karl Misselt wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > >   
> > 
> > Looks like the JMB363 SATA controller has support in 2.6.16-x kernels:
> > http://www.jmicron.com/JMB363.html
> > Makes me think it might be possible to build the driver and load it on 
> > install.
> > Or wait until it gets patched into vendor kernels. 
> > -K
> > 
> > 
>