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

[Harry Giles]

Net Llama! wrote:
> 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
>
>   

Never been a big fan of RedHat though.  I saw this earlier, but prefer 
Debian based distros first, then Suse.  If I can't get these to work, I 
will try Fedora.

Hope I am not stepping on any toes here.

Harry G