SATA disk not being detected in Mandriva 2007

[tpb261]

hi,
I've a 160GB Seagate SATA disk along with a 80GB PATA disk (of Seagate)
So thr was no prob installing Mandriva 2007 (Spring One Free edition) which I downloaded The prob is that Mandriva doesn't even detect my SATA disk System configuration (from Linux hwinfo HDrake)

Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
MB : ASUS K8V-VM (Ultra)
SATA controller : VT8237A SATA 2-Port Controller
IDE Controller : VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus
Master IDE(is it needed?)

Can someone help me out? I dont want to chng the distro (thr wud need 2 b a lot of data migration)

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Execute this

su
fdisk -l

Post output here.

[tpb261]

Thanks for the warm welcome!!!

su
Password:
[root@localhost TPB]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 131 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda2 * 132 542 3301357+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3 543 679 1100452+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 680 9729 72694125 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 680 2455 14265688+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 2456 2582 1020096 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda7 2583 3730 9221278+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda8 3731 4291 4506201 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda9 5006 9729 37945498+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda10 4292 5005 5735173+ 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sda: 2063 MB, 2063597568 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 7872 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 7872 2015216 b W95 FAT32




The sda1 is a 2GB USB Drive that's connected ryt nw

[devils casper]

Boot up from any LiveCD and check if SATA disk recognized by it. Check in BIOS too, Disk must be enabled there.

[tpb261]

oops!!!
forgot to mention I got Ubuntu installed on my system and it has no problems detecting the disk Mandriva failed to detect even during the installation and even as a Live CD So the disk does work, not a BIOS setting problem (Windows XP detects it too)