[Staffslug] Installing onto a SATA drive?

I have an oldish Gigabyte board that has a small SATA connector board (PCI) attached to it. I've popped a Mint disk (11 I think which I know is old now) in just to try and install to the 500gb SATA drive that is hooked up. Nothing. No sign of the SATA drive anywhere. Should I be doing anything different? I know that with MS Windows I need to halt the install near the beginning and add the relevant drivers but I didn't expect to have to do this with Linux. Or do I? Any ideas? I don't want to but ultimately I may end up having to buy :( a new mobo with fully built in SATA capability. This would also entail buying new RAM, new optical drives..... you see why I don't want to do this. -- ============================================== Kevan Linux user #373362 Staffordshire ********************************************** www.freeworld-recycling.org 'Just Free it.' **********************************************