Linux can't see my hard drive (additional info)

[Harry Giles]

Harry Giles wrote:
> I have a HP Pavilion dv9000 laptop, with an AMD Turion 64 x2 processor, 
> and a 100 gig hard drive.
> XP shows the drive in system information as:
>
> Manufacturer         (Standard disk drives)
> Model                     HTS541010G9SA00
>
> And it shows the controller as:
>
> Name                  Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
> Manufacturer       (Standard IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers)
>
> The only distro I have been able to boot is a OpenSuse 10.2 live disk.  
> Everything else seems to snag during the initial start up.
> When I have the live version running, it can not see any hard drive.
>
> Is this something that XP does?  Or what else can it be?
>
>
> TIA
>
> Harry G
>
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>   
It looks like the drive is a Hitachi Travelstar drive, a serial ATA hard 
drive.  (Thank goodness for Google!)

Harry G