i am also having problems getting knoppix26 to boot and recognize my sata drives. I can get everything to work in a 2.4 boot, but when i do "knoppix26 noscsi" i get the error "Disabling IRQ #18" repeating over and over for about 2 minutes, then it finally quits and loads KDE. *however* when I try to mount my sata drive it says "Can't read superblock" and if I use the command "hdparm -X66 -d1 /dev/hdg" which is how i used to get it to work on 2.4 kernels, this still doesn't work.

Has anyone got some advice on what to try next? I really want to do an HD install of 2.6 but this is the last thing preventing me.

Thanks