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

[Net Llama!]

On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Harry Giles wrote:
> 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?
>>
> It looks like the drive is a Hitachi Travelstar drive, a serial ATA hard
> drive.  (Thank goodness for Google!)

You never stated which linux distro (other than suse) you've tried.  Some 
minimal googling turned up quite a few success stories with that notebook:
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~ambrown4/linuxondv9000.html

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