PATA drives disappear during installation

I'm stuck and don't know what to try next and until I can get past this
problem I'm without a home server.

I'm building a new home server based on an Asus P4B with a PATA HDD and
DVD-RW and 4 x SATA HDDs. The build seems Ok and boots fine but when I try
to install OpenSUSE 10.2 the PATA HDD and DVD disappear :(

The system boots from the OpenSUSE DVD and the welcome screen comes up
without problems. I then select Install and the kernel loads.

At that point I get a message saying that the system cannot find the
installation CD and it's activating the manual setup program.

I do have a machine on the LAN running with an image available via nfs so I
can continue the install over nfs but when I go into Custom Partitioning
there's sda, sdb, sdc, sdd but no sign of hdX.

If I boot from a System Rescue CD and get gparted up all the drives are
there so it's not (generic) Linux.

What can I do to get OpenSUSE to see both the PATA and SATA drives during
install?

Help me please

Alan

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