SATA drivers (ASUS M3A-H/HDMI mobo)?

[smaier69]

hello all. although i have years of experience working with MS, i am very very new to Linux. so, please be gentle

i have a little bit of hands-on with Fedora 2, but that was with a couple older Dell GX260/GX270 machines, and Fedora 2 had native drivers for them. easy peasy.

at this point i am setting up a Fedora 2 at home, and am having problems locating SATA drivers for an Asus m3a-h/hdmi (AMD 780G, SB700 chipset). Fedora installer warns there are no hard drives detected. for all i know there will be more stops in the install process, but this is the first hurdle for me.

ive done some googling, but am having a hard time finding something that is clearly what i need driver-wise. i am kind of afraid to take risks due to my lack of experience, unlike with MS OSs, which ive lost all intimidation from.

any help, or a point in the right direction would be most helpful.

thank you in advance!

[giulix]

What do you mean by Fedora 2? Fedora is at version 11 right now and your motherboard is latest generation...

[smaier69]

Originally Posted by giulix

What do you mean by Fedora 2? Fedora is at version 11 right now and your motherboard is latest generation...

im taking a Linux class, and the distro included with the books was Fedora Core 2. not knowing anything about anything, i have no idea when the different releases came out.

judging by your reply getting the latest version would supply the native drivers? that makes sense. i will look into that. i thank you, sir

[giulix]

Oh, I see... Yes, what you're trying to do is (roughly) like installing windoze 95 on a brand new computer...