Short and sweet. Long time Linux user.... and been using both RH and SuSE for many years. Finally bought a new machine (AMD AM2 socket based (Pacifica support). Anyway... time to move from my old Dual Core X2 4400+ machine to my new AM2 machine. Motherboard is an Asus M2V (See specs here: http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1171&l1=3&l2=101&l3=305) Stuck in a Seagate 500GB SATA-II disk. SATA chipsets on MB are as follows: * VIA(r) VT8237A South Bridge: 2 x UltraDMA 133/100/66/33 2 x Serial ATA with RAID 0, RAID 1, JBOD * Marvell 88SE6121: 1 x Serial ATAI/II 1 x External Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard disk (SATA On-the-Go) Unable to get the SATA disk recognised under either chipsets/ports. :( Any clues.... I did a SATA install flawlessly under 10.0... though haven't progressed far with SUSE 10.1. I found it strange that the install also failed to find the IDE DVD -- and I had to manually select the 'ide-generic' module for it to recognise the drive. I've attempted loading similar modules for the SATA controllers but with no luck. Any pointers would be greatfully recieved. :) -- Matt Bottrell mbottrell@gmail.com