I just built a new system:

Shuttle SN85G4
-Sil 3512a sata raid
-nforce3

Athlon 64 3200
evga 5700 ultra
Hercules fortissimo III

2 Hitachi deskstar 80GB sata hds

lite on dvd burner

That is basically all i think is need out of the hardware

Anyway I'm having a hard time getting any distro to install. I've tried Slack 9.1, Mandrake 9.1, Fedora 64 beta, Mandrake 10.0 beta and in all cases none of them seem to detect the hard drives.

I've tried to install using raid and non-raid configurations and still nothing.

Anyhelp would be apprciatied.

You should search the forums for this as Ive seen this same question alot.

yeah redudance posting should be, would be, must be ? smashed ..

I've looked, mostly the solution seems to be compile your own kernel and insert it into the slack tree and then make a new iso. The problem being is I don't have a linux system running to compile my own kernel so that won't help. I was more looking for suggestions of a distro that would work with out recompiling.

So, basically....I have a old ata non-serial drive that i'm going to throw in the box, hopefully it will allow slack to be installed and then compile a 2.6 kernel, yada yada yada.

I really didn't want to have to go to all that trouble for something that may or maynot work anyway.

I'm still open to other suggestions....if anyone cares to help

THanks

Yeah compile own kernel is solution for yer hardware++, but if it is not worked yet, u ll get experience on the kernel compile which u can use to solve many other thing that not yet come over yer mind or they r, but u just seral tast with one smash...

Compile kernel is kinda experience oriented, u ll have go through the config menus several times, based on how ur experience of hardware is .. But it is not c++ coding contest, that is an successive aproximation approArch, don't ask me about it, n don't mix with that topic. It is kinda time n bandwidth wasting for non anaproofed kid ..

N it has nothing to do with kernel compiling. With luck u ll solve it faster with kernel cooking than to wait for slack9.2 or mdk10 .., peace ..

Hi, I don't know if my experience with Suse can help you, but I have just completed my installation and written a small HOTOW to run arround the traps.

Get a look, it might help and it's free

http://www.le-foll.demon.co.uk/linux

Try Xandros, it's the only one which worked out of the box with my insanely built pc (with scsi, sata, nforce2, ati, ...)

almost every recent linux distro worked fine with my nforce2 sata non-raid, but nothing seemed to work with raid. im suprised that mdk 10 didn't, i thought that kernel 2.6 would handle most of that stuff (i haven't tried it with sata raid yet)

i think it might be with the particular sata controller. my nforce2 has a sil3112, im not sure if the nforce3 has it built in, or still uses an extra chip. if it uses an extra chip, search on that specifically