Asus K8N motherboard and SATA HD

[Meng Cheah]

Hi

I have an Asus K8N motherboard  with 2  IDE controllers and 2 SATA 
(150Mb/s) connectors.
In BIOS, they show as:
Primary IDE Master           (hda, HD)
Primary IDE Slave              (hdb, HD)
Secondary IDE Master       (hdc, CDROM)
Secondary IDE Slave        

I installed a Seagate SATA (3.0Gb/s) 750G drive.

Both Windows and Debian Etch (dual boot) did not detect it, neither did 
Knoppix.
I had jumpered the drive for 150Mb/s. The Asus K8N does not support the 
3.0Gb/s version of SATA.

I updated the BIOS which added
Third IDE Master
Fourth IDE Master
but it still would not detect the SATA drive.

fdisk -l shows only hda and hdb.
dmesg shows
<snip>
libata version 2.00 loaded.
sata_nv 0000:00:0a.0: version 2.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LTID] BIOS reported IRQ 0, using IRQ 22
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LTID] enabled at IRQ 22
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> Link [LTID] -> GSI 22 (level, 
low) -> IRQ 177
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0a.0 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9F0 ctl 0xBF2 bmdma 0xC800 irq 177
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x970 ctl 0xB72 bmdma 0xC808 irq 177
scsi0 : sata_nv
ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
scsi1 : sata_nv
ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
<snip>

I suspect that the motherboard is problematic as even after updating the 
BIOS,
the SATA connectors show up as Third IDE Master and Fourth IDE Master.

Can anyone help out?
Otherwise, I'll have to return it for an IDE drive :-)

Thanks in advance.

Meng

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