Distribution: SuSE Linux 9.2, Fedora Core 3 and others I guess
Hardware Environment: Dual XEON workstation with ICh5 Serial ATA controller
Software Environment: Distributions and their installers
Problem Description: The kernels 2.6.8 (SuSE distribution) and 2.6.9 (FC3) 
seem to have problems to detect Serial-ATA hard disks connected to an ICH5 SATA
controller. Problem seems to happen only on [x86_64] architecture, if using i386
architecture it works and the SATA disks are detected.

Steps to reproduce:
Try installation of either SuSE 9.2 [x86_64] or Fedora Core 3 [x86_64] on a
system with SATA only hard disks. The install programs complain that there is no
hard disk detected.

I tried a SuSE installation on a normal IDE disk, works fine, but the SATA disk
still connected is not detected. Then I compiled kernel 2.6.10 for x86_64 and
installed it, works fine.

So this bug report is just intended to be an information if the problem wasn't
already knwon.