Problem: SATA DVD writer not recognized/mounted by SUSE 9.2 Pro x86_64 System: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard (nVidia nForce4 chipset, latest BIOS update) AMD Athlon64 3200 cpu 1 GB Crucial Ballistix ram 2 x 80 GB Western Digital SATA hard drive Plextor PX-716SA SATA DVD/CD writer 1 x 30 GB IDE hard drive Sony IDE CD writer - NOT using on-board RAID - hard drives and DVD writer connected to nForce4 SATA controller, not SiI3114R controller - get same problem no matter which SATA controller I use - get same problem whether IDE devices are attached or not Details: I had the well-documented problems getting my system to recognize the 9.2 dvd at all (booted from it OK, then it disappeared). I burned the FTP install CD and got 9.2 x86_64 that way. SATA hard drives are recognized just fine, able to install 9.2 x86_64 using Linux software RAID with no problems. The system just will not recognize the DVD writer, however. Here are some relevant lines from dmesg: SCSI subsystem initialized libata version 1.02 loaded. sata_nv version 0.03 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:07.0 to 64 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9F0 ctl 0xBF2 bmdma 0xD800 irq 11 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x970 ctl 0xB72 bmdma 0xD808 irq 11 ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:5b01 84:4003 85:3469 86:1801 87:4003 88:203f ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/100, 156250000 sectors: ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100 scsi0 : sata_nv ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:5b01 84:4003 85:3469 86:1801 87:4003 88:203f ata2: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/100, 156250000 sectors: ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100 scsi1 : sata_nv Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD800JD-75JN Rev: 05.0 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sda: 156250000 512-byte hdwr sectors (80000 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD800JD-75JN Rev: 05.0 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sdb: 156250000 512-byte hdwr sectors (80000 MB) SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:08.0 to 64 ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9E0 ctl 0xBE2 bmdma 0xC400 irq 5 ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x960 ctl 0xB62 bmdma 0xC408 irq 5 ata3: dev 0 cfg 49:0f00 82:0000 83:0000 84:0000 85:0000 86:0000 87:0000 88:101f ata3: dev 0 ATAPI, max UDMA/66 ata3: dev 0 configured for UDMA/66 scsi2 : sata_nv ata4: no device found (phy stat 00000000) scsi3 : sata_nv Note in particular the lines towards the bottom concerning "ata3" - clearly the kernel is seeing the DVD writer, but no device type is assigned and nothing gets mounted. Could the problem just be the "sata_nv" module? Here is some output from lsmod, to demonstrate the state of my storage-related modules: sata_nv 9988 6 libata 46856 1 sata_nv sr_mod 18084 0 sd_mod 18072 8 scsi_mod 130432 6 sg,st,osst,libata,sr_mod,sd_mod Any help would be appreciated - I hope I'm not just being stupid somehow... -John Jegla