Can't install Linux on a SATA drive

[R0c4]

My PC has two SATA drives and zero IDE drives.  One of the SATA drive has Windows XP on it and I would like to put Mandriva Linux on the other.

The problem is that during installation, it say it is unable to find a drive to install it in.  What can I do?

[GX1_Man]

Use a distro that recognizes SATA drives. They are still quite new, and it will take a while to get wide acceptance in all distros. Mandrake/Mandriva will eventually.

[pvdvyve]

Iīm also running SATA drives. GNU/Linux Suse from 9.1 over 9.2 to 9.3 have been smoothly installed on this system.

Running Knoppix 3.8/3.9/4.0 have no problems with finding the SATA drives. Although I didnīt install a Knoppix or Debian alike system on them.

I suggest to try a recent distro to install on your SATA drives.

You can install a GNU/Linux Suse system from ftp via the internet if you wish, or from almost any BSD-distro, such as FreeBSD, NetBSD. (No Linux, I know, but still very nice things.)