[NTLUG:Discuss] Hardware question please

[Fred James]

Basically I have a new case, mother board and memory, and old hard 
drives, DVD/CD drive, and floppy
The old drives are of course IDE and the new mother board supports
    1 channel (2 devices) IDE
     4 SATA (sata_0 sata_1 sata_2 sata_3, each to be set to master)
    1 Floppy

I have
    Linux on 2 IDE HHD
    Win98SE on 1 IDE HDD
    1 DVD/CD
    1 3.5 floppy drive

Yesterday,
    I installed an IDE expansion card
    I hook the Linux disks to the IDE channel (master and slave) on the 
mother board
    I hook the DVD/CD and Win98 SE (master and slave) to one channel on 
the expansion card
    I hook the floppy to the mother board
Plenty of problems, but Linux tried to boot - the complaint was it 
couldn't find hdd7 ... the light went on - didn't know anything about 
the expansion card so it couldn't see the disk or DVD/CD

Today
    I removed the IDE expansion card
    I left the Linux disks to the IDE channel (master and slave) on the 
mother board
    I installed converters on the Win98SE and DVD/CD (converts IDE 
devices to SATA connections)
    I hook Win98SE to SATA_0 (master)
    I hook DVD/CD to SATA_1 (master)
Now the box cannot find a bootable hard drive (I should note that the OS 
partition on the Win98SE disk has been wiped in preperation for a reinstall)

The board is a GA-G41M-ES2L
The SATA cable on sata_0 has an L-shaped end that (as instructed) in 
attached to the device.  The other SATA cable is straight at each end

Any clues would be much appreciated
Thanks
Regards
Fred James