I have been trying for some time now to install any version of Linux on my Asus P5W DH Pro that uses a Dual Core Duo with ICH7R Intel chipset with sata 2 support and also my Nvidia 7950 GX2. The best distro so far has been opensuse 10.2 and none yet have supported the JMicron controller. Anyway I thought I was home and dry with opensuse 10.2 but use dd to copy from one sata to another and input/output errors pop up and process fails.
I have spent hours trying to resolve this problem but decided to go back to my first successful sata cloning which was to use an older PC that uses a VIA chipset and bingo. No probs. So I thought this might be of use given that I can mount these partitions that cannot be read by dd and so on...
Excelent forum.
Hope this is of interest.