Status of Serial ATA support

I'm rather amazed at the emails on this list that I found that helped explain why the SUSE 9.0 for AMD64 won't load, No Serial ATA Support for the VIA chipset (or any chipset for that matter). What a crushing appointment, I built this machine specfically to use SUSE 9.0 for AMD 64, and yes I bought modern hardware like a serial ATA drive. If Linux cannot support the current hardware generation it will continue to remain marginalized on the desktop bigtime. So when can I expect Serial ATA support (I will not go to last generation hardware) or did I just waste my money on this thing? So much for the easy installation, what a joke. Signed very frustrated with SUSE 9.0 for AMD 64