On 24.04.2005, at 14:12, A.E.Lawrence wrote:

> I have 4 sata, 1 scsi and 1 ata hard disks attached to an Asus A8N-SLI.
> The primary ata disc (connected to ide0) is inaccessible:

Are you booting from PATA or SATA? I had a similar problem
where the PATA drives wouldn't be probed if I booted from
a SATA drive. Vice versa it worked/works, though my chipset
is VIA but the boards where this problem occured are also
from Asus and daughter company.

Servus,
       Daniel