Just plugged in 1 hard drive 1st then installe XPsp2 and nforce 6.39 w/ nvidia video drivers 71.80 beta's. Everything worked, then added 3 addl. drives.
Then used partition magic to setup a 12g Linux partition. Then installed RH3.0 4th release, everything was detected correct.
Currently running w/ the initial bios, afraid to flash to the latest bios because everything works fine..
I had the worst luck w/ my other mobo (a8n-sli), maybe soon it will be resolved. Still waiting for a rma'd DOE board..
Personally I think the Ultra versions are less problematic then the sli versions. There is a new Asus A8N-E that may be nice.
The only reason I got the asus mobo instead of another DFI, is that I needed a parallel port. (Linux) Now I wish I'd have
gotten a Tyan k8W opteron mobo....
Good Luck,
Regards,
Jose