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.