Hi,
My first word of advice.  Don't by Nvidia based chipsets.  I've been 
saying that for years, and until NVidia decides to actually start 
working with the open source community ... correctly, I'm going to 
continue to say it.  Giving us binary drivers is not "working with the 
community"

Now that I'm off my soapbox (or whatever the equivalent is where you 
live), let's look at the problem.

Please send us the output of
   /sbin/lspci

Also please note that SL is an enterprise OS, meaning that it takes a 
while for newer drivers to make it into the release.  OpenSuse, like 
Fedora, is not an enterprise distribution, so it always has the latest 
kernel, and hense, the latest drivers.  And Debian 5.0 just barely came out.

That being said, if you give us an 'lspci' we can at least look at it.

Troy

J S Jayakumar wrote:
> Dear Troy,
> 
>      I have tested RC dated 11March.  It is not able to recognise hard 
> disks on ASUS M3N78-EM motherboard for AMD processors.  Motherboard 
> chipset is NVIDIA GeForce 8300. A Phemon processor and 8GB ECC DDR2 RAM 
> are installed in the motherboard.  However, the hard disk is detected on 
> openSUSE 11.0 and Debian 5.0 and installation is successful for these 
> operating systems.  Kindly update the SL release candidate accordingly
> 
> With regards,
> J S Jayakumar.
> 
> Troy Dawson wrote:
>> J S Jayakumar wrote:
>>> Dear Troy,
>>>
>>>       As you know SL5.2 does not support many of the new mother 
>>> boards and other hardware.  We are eagerly looking for the release of 
>>> SL 5.3  Can you pl. tell the probable date of release?
>>>
>>> J S Jayakumar.
>>>
>> This is from the RC 2 release notes
>>
>> ...
>>
>> The second release candidate for Scientific Linux 5.3 i386 has been
>> released for both i386 and x86_64 on March 02.
>>
>> Release Candidate 2 has everything the way it should be, including yum
>> and updates going to their proper place.  We will then let it sit for
>> almost two weeks as it get's it's final testing and pounding.
>>
>> If all goes well, we will incorporate any changes and release Release
>> Candidate 2.5 somewhere around March 10 or 11.  Release Candidate 2.5 is
>> essentially the release and will only be changed if something critical
>> or major happens.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> I would expect it's final release between March 13 and March 20.
>>
>> But you can always test before that. 5.3 Release Candidate 2 is what 
>> is in 5rolling, and any changes between now and the release *should* 
>> be fairly minor.
>>
>> Troy
> 


-- 
__________________________________________________
Troy Dawson  [log in to unmask]  (630)840-6468
Fermilab  ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI LMSS Group
__________________________________________________