I also have the same observation. SATA hard disks and Ethernet devices are not recognized even by SL 5.3 on ASUS motherboards with nVidia chipsets. An example is M3N78-EM with NVIDIA GeForce 8300 chipset. J S Jayakumar Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:57:01AM -0500, Salvador Aguinaga wrote: > >> Have any of you come across a system where fdisk does not recognize >> SATA (1.5TB drives)? >> > > Absolutely yes. For example SL kernels do not know how to access SATA > on most recent ASUS AMD mobos using most recent NVidia chipsets. One > example is ASUS CrosshairII, but all recent mobos with the same chipset > have the same problem: nvidia sata and nvidia ethernet are not detected > by the SL kernels. > > As solution, I run custom-built vanilla linux kernels on these machines (2.6.27). > >