SATA controller PCI card, solution to mobo not detecting HD?

[xAIRPOWERx]

I have the 300 gig diamond max 10 sata hard drive from maxtor and the nforce 4 ultra based mobo from chaintech UNF4 zenith. Basically this drive does not detect on this motherboard.

If I were to purchase a SATA controller and install that, would that allow this drive to detect?

That is a better solution than replacing either the drive or the motherboard, do you think it will work though?

Thanks.

 

[xAIRPOWERx]

Any help?

 

[Rock Hydra]

That's what I did when my SATA controller crapped out on me.

 

[kumala]

make a boot disk from mobo support cd and get the sata drivers.

 

[akugami]

You might need sata drivers before it'll recognize the HD as kumala said or it just might be the infamous NF4 chipset and Maxtor Daimondmax 9 & 10 HD's.

 

[countingdown7]

What about the diamondmax hdds? I'm currently having detection issues...

 

[xAIRPOWERx]

You are misunderstanding my problem.

The motherboard does not detect the drive. It's like it's not even there. There is nothing I can do to solve this issue except wait, potentially forever, for chaintech to release a bios update that solves this.

Will a SATA controller card solve the problem?

Anyone have any suggestion for a CHEAP SATA 2 capable PCI sata controller card?