Bug#272443: Sarge installer report - SATA drives not detected on Sis180 chip, Asus p4s800d-e board

[James Todd <jotodd@comcast.net>]

Package: debian-installer
Version: 2-Sep-2004 sarge snapshot (dvd)

Greetings,

I'm running the installer off of a dvd 'testing' image from 2-Sep-2004 
on a machine with an Asus P4S800D-E deluxe board and two SATA Western 
Digital drives connected to the board via the Sis180 chip's sata ports. 
Processor is an Intel 3.2Ghz.

During both a default installation and a linux26 installation, the 
problem occurs at the partitioning stage. Manual partitioning is the 
only option because no drives or partitions are detected. The drives are 
known to be functional since an existing commercial OS exists on one of 
the drives and is bootable.

I had believed that the libata driver supported the Sis chip for sata in 
the 2.6.7 kernel, but a linux26 install exhibits the same behavior.

Hope this helps,
James Todd