SATA drives do not have master/slave jumpers. If your drive has those, then it is not a SATA drive. You may have instructions for master/slave jumpers on PATA drives, but they jumper positions themselves simply do not exist on your SATA drive (look at it).
The brief "no drives found" message you see flash by at boot is for the secondary SATA ports. Many motherboards have two SATA controller chips, each with several ports. One Intel chip, and one by somebody else (eg. JMicron or Marvell). The brief message is for the latter.
It is usually best to hook the boot drive to the Intel controller, but most systems can boot from any port.
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Edited by mlord (02/07/2009 11:12)