After reading a lot of the failure reports and noise.

Are the available distributions what we are going to live with for the 
immediate future?

When I read the release notes for SL 5.4  there is no mention of the S ATA 
problem or it being fixed.

NVidea problems I had with SL 5.3 can be taken care of by disabling the video 
module at install and boot up and just set the desired display resolution.  
Thank for tip from a SL user.

When I tried to install SL 5.3 on 64 bit system with  Serial ATA disks.   The 
installation just hangs.    I have  Suse 11. on this system but really would 
like to use SL.  Suse 11.1 - 11.3  has the same NVidea problem.

The ISO images for SL 5.4 were down loaded a few weeks ago and I wonder if 
its worth the effort to make the disks and install SL 5.4. since the release 
notes never said any thing about the SATA interface or at least I didn't find 
it.

Regards
Larry Linder