Today, I got word from Lite-On that they tested the drive with Mandriva 2007. I assumed they meant 2007.0 and so I got a copy and tried it. Sure enough, the drive is detected. That distribution uses the 2.6.17 kernel. I'm not sure if this is certainly a kernel issue, but if it is (or the sata_nv driver), it is a regression between 2.6.17 and 2.6.31.
Today, I got word from Lite-On that they tested the drive with Mandriva 2007. I assumed they meant 2007.0 and so I got a copy and tried it. Sure enough, the drive is detected. That distribution uses the 2.6.17 kernel. I'm not sure if this is certainly a kernel issue, but if it is (or the sata_nv driver), it is a regression between 2.6.17 and 2.6.31.