Can't mount my SATA drive

[Duncan Lithgow]

On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 15:11 -0800, Ed Fletcher wrote: 
> If you can see the sata controller in the bios but not the drive, then
> ensure that the motherboard bios has sata enabled.
See my main email for that problem
>  Also go into the
> sata controller bios and make sure it is enabled there.
Is that part of the main BIOS or something else?
> Are you using an onboard controller?  If not, which one do you have?
> And which motherboard?
If 'onboard' means a plug on the mainboard, then yes. I'm not using a
PCI card.

Thanks for the tips so far - Duncan