look i wasn't trying to argue or say your wrong. i'm only giving my experience, much like you did. i apologize if you took any of this as an argument. it certainly wasn't.

have a good one.

This sounds to me like a driver issue. Back when I was using SuSE 8.2 I had a similar issue and it turned out to be a driver issue. Now I noticed you said you allready installed the driver. When I had the same issue it took trying 3 or 4 different driver versions and downloads to get my sata HDD to work. If you have only tried one driver, my suggestion would be to get online and find a couple different versions of the driver for your sata card or try a couple different download sites, you may have gotten a partially corrupted driver. Then once you have a couple floppies with different drivers start a new install and when the boot option screen shows up chose to install other drivers (should be something like f6) and do a minimal graphical install so the install doesn't take too long. This is the easiest, although admittedly a time consuming way to try to fix the problem.

I wasn't try to argue either. I know that u were arguing. I was just sharing my experience. Some mysteries like this happens sometimes. U dont have to apologize too. I tried mandrake 10.0 in my old pc. i booted and then it said that it couldn't find cdrom. I tried load some shit. But it didn't work. And i couldn't bothered about that too much, because that pc is not gonna run smoothly. So no point in installing it. So i wasn't arguing. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers