SATA install - AMD64 - success story

[Jeff Breidenbach <jeff@jab.org>]

Success report.

Hitachi 7k500 SATA hard drive 
Intel Pentium D 820 CPU
ASUS P5WD2 Premium Edition motherboard 

I found that Ubuntu can install to the SATA drive but Debian Sarge
cannot. I've used all sorts of remastered installers, including a
2.6.11 AMD64 version.  The problem was not detecting the disk, and was
eventually solved by manually finding and doing an insmod on the
ata_piix module (on the 2.6.11 remastered installer).  Hope this is
helpful.

Cheers,
Jeff