First hardwares on my machine:
Foxconn 755A01-6EKRS Socket 754 SiS 755 motherboard, athlon 64 3400+, 1G PC3200 ram, ati 9200 mobility, two 200G-sata, one 200G-IDE, one 160G-IDE.

Here is the problem: Mandriva 2006 hardly can recognize all my drives at the partitioning part of the installation, usually I could only see my two IDE drives and maybe one of the sata drives. So I restarted the installation, and finally I was lucky once to see all my hard drives and install Mandriva 2006 on a sata drive. But after installation the system would not boot up because the sata drives cannot be recognized by Mandriva 2006. Then I switched to the 160G-IDE drive to install the system, and this time I can login to the system, but I still cannot find any partition of my sata drives under /dev.

When I was using Mandriva 2005 LE, I had no problem to have all my drives mounted in the system. Does Mandriva 2006 have less compatibility than 2005?

Any ideas and suggestions? Thank you.

Did you try /dev/sda..etc?

/dev/hdxx stands for IDE Drives.

/dev/sdxx stands for SCSI Drives. So SATA Drives would be under /dev/sdxx.

I cannot find any sdxx under /dev/. Too many problems of mandriva 2006, maybe I should go back to 2005.

Hmm... I never tried Mandriva 2006.

I was using Mandriva LE 2005 a while ago, and when I tried to Upgrade, it got screwed up completely.

There have been some serious problems with Upgrading Mandriva.

But the one your are describing is very strange.
Mandriva uses some newer 2.6.x kernel (compared to LE 2005), and should have even better support for SCSI devices.

I gave up 2006 and back to 2005. There are so many problems not only this SATA stuff. My boss who has been using mandrake for years also gave up 2006 and swithed to suse. If mandriva keep doing this, they will get themselves out of the business.

Yeah SuSE has come up with a very good distro, with their SuSE 10.

Lets help this topic not go OT.