SATA drives on 10.0

I'm having problems detecting SATA drives. A google suggested certain
kernels gave problems, so, so far, I've tried kernels
2.6.13-15-default 2.6.13-15.7-default and 2.6.13-15.8-default, all
give the same problem.

A bit more background, which may or may not be relevant, I'm booting
the machine via a network, using drbl, so the kernel resides on a
server, which has IDE drives. So would all relevant stuff for SATA be
in the kernel, or do I need to add it?

I know the SATA drives can be accessed, as I can network boot into an
old kernel, which does detect the drives.

Any help would be much appreciated.
--
Dave Clarke

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