None of the suggestions in this forum give an adequate solution for this problem. I am using a MSI K7T266Pro2 motherboard with a Western Digital 25GIG drive and I am completely unable to boot any linux on my system except for SUSE 9.1. (SUSE 9.2 and later and ALL other distributions dont work)

None of the command line options do me any good. I have tried booting knoppix in DEBUG mode and the only "suspect" message I see is that it says hdc: hard drive caches not supported

but at the end of the boot it says: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).

No drive actually mounts. I have tried the knoppix options: dma, nodma, ismod=ide, debug, expert26, and knoppix_dir=/iso/KNOPPIX but nothing works.

It seems that ONLY the SUSE9.1 has the kernal that supports my motherboard controller?