ata/100 and linux

[Savant]

I tried to install linux with the hard drives on the onboard ata/100 ports today, but had no luck. I got a message stating that I had no hard drives in my computer on which to create partitions, and therefore I couldn't continue. So I was hoping those of you who have already done this could tell me if theres something special I have to do.
Mandrake 7.2 Asus A7V

also do you know why I get a "disk boot failure" message when I attach the hd's to the ata/100? I can just hit enter and everything runs fine, but I'd kinda like to get rid of that message.

Thanks

[otheos]

for the disk boot failure problem, enable the virus protection in the BIOS or upgrade to 1005D from here:
http://www.amdzone.com/files/bios/asus/a7v/a7v1005d.zip

for ata100:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA-5.html

and some kernel patches
http://www1.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/

hope that helped

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[Savant]

but I just checked asus last night and they said the newest was 1005c (I have 1005b)
So enabeling virus boot protection should fix it?

As to the problem at hand: how do I get to a command prompt during the installation of mandrake to do that?