Hi Uwe,

I have been unsuccessfully trying to get Linux to work with my SATA disk 
on my ASUS Vintage AE-1 barebone machine.

I have posted to the ASUS support site (see 
http://vip.asus.com/eservice/techmailstatus.aspx?ID=WTM200601212130302557), 
and am still waiting for a reply.
For more background on the problem, please see the attached message 
which I sent to the ubuntu-users mailing list - which did not produce 
any answers. 
The BIOS can see the SATA disk, but Linux does not!
If I type "lsmod | grep -i ata" it returns nothing (no 'ata' drivers 
loaded). If I type 'locate sata_sis', it finds 2 copies, so I assume it 
should be OK if I load the drivers with modprobe:

    mobprobe sat_sis
    modprobe ata

"lsmod | grep -i ata" now shows them loaded, but what do I do next?  the 
devices /dev/sd* are not present, so I cannot access the disk. Am I 
missing a step?
I tried to build the driver from the sources provided on the CD with the 
machine, but it would not build (filesystem layout differences between 
Fedora and Debian??).

Anyway, please help!

Any pointers/info/etc would be gratefully received.

Thanks,

- Chris