I have an HP DV9000 that has an NVIDIA nforce 430/410 SATA controller. I
get prompted for specifying the device driver to load at installation with
Fedora 7 test 4 installation.
Fedora Core 6 had no problem finding the hard drive and installing when
"noapic" is added as a kernel option, though FC6 had other sordid issues
post-installation.
I was a bit surprised, with such a common chipset, that the driver was not
on the list/supplied.