Hi! I've got a problem and I'm really desperate. I've MSI K8T mobo with athlon 64 3400+ processor. I've installed Maxtor's Diamond plus 9 hard drive on WinXP. When I checked in Computer properties it says WinXp Promise SATA 378 IDE controller. And the hard drive works fine on WinXp. I even created three NTFS partition with no linux partition. Now when I try to install Mandrake 9.2 it recognizes my controller as Promise technology PDC20376 Fast TRak 378 controller and then it asks me whether i wanna use another device as it won't install on it. So when I choose another device by choosing the same controller it gives an error. I donno what to do. Does anyone know what did I do wrong or what am I supposed to do?

Please help.

---AR

NOte: I've posted message couple of times. Sorry about that

I am so sorry. There is a solution but it is not easy to do even for advanced user. By default, I think Mandrake 9.2 not shipped with kernel which can handle SATA stuff. So, you can just wait for next version of Mandrake come out with kernel which can handle SATA stuff. Or if you have sense of adventure, you can try this solution. This case works in Slackware. I don't know in Mandrake case. First, you have to compile the new kernel in another machine and you have to make your kernel have the stuff that can handle SATA stuff. Then replace the kernel in Mandrake cd with your own kernel. Burn the cd. Then, voila, some people with this way can install Linux in SATA harddisk. If you think this is too complicated, you can ask somebody ( maybe in this forum ) to compile the kernel so that can support SATA stuff. That's all.