Here is the output of dmesg from my bootup of the Feisty Live DvD and also the fstab file.
Here everything works as it should including most importantly,  the Sata hdd plugged into the Highpoint 1540 SATA 4port interface card..............

[    0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 00000000ffff0000 size: 0000000000010000 end: 0000000100000000 type: 2
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009e800 (usable)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 000000000009e800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fff0000 (usable)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 000000003fff0000 - 000000003fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 000000003fff3000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI data)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[    0.000000] 127MB HIGHMEM available.
[    0.000000] 896MB LOWMEM available.
[    0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 262128) 0 entries of 256 used
[    0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[    0.000000]   DMA             0 ->     4096
[    0.000000]   Normal       4096 ->   229376
[    0.000000]   HighMem    229376 ->   262128
[    0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
[    0.000000]     0:        0 ->   262128
[    0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 262128
[    0.000000]   DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000]   DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[    0.000000]   DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31
[    0.000000]   HighMem zone: 255 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000]   HighMem zone: 32497 pages, LIFO batch:7
[    0.000000] DMI 2.2 present.
[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 Nvidia                                ) @ 0x000f75f0
[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fff3000
[    0.000000] ACPI: FADT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fff3040
[    0.000000] ACPI: MADT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fff74c0
[    0.000000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 NVIDIA AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
[    0.000000] Nvidia board detected. Ignoring ACPI timer override.
[    0.000000] If you got timer trouble try acpi_use_timer_override
[    0.000000] Nvidia board detected. Ignoring ACPI timer override.
[    0.000000] If you got timer trouble try acpi_use_timer_override
[    0.000000] Nvidia board detected. Ignoring ACPI timer override.
[    0.000000] If you got timer trouble try acpi_use_timer_override
[    0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008
[    0.000000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
[    0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[    0.000000] Processor #0 6:10 APIC version 16
[    0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
[    0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[    0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
[    0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
[    0.000000] ACPI: BIOS IRQ0 pin2 override ignored.
[    0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
[    0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 14 global_irq 14 high edge)
[    0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 15 global_irq 15 high edge)
[    0.000000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
[    0.000000] ACPI: IRQ14 used by override.
[    0.000000] ACPI: IRQ15 used by override.
[    0.000000] Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 1 I/O APICs
[    0.000000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
[    0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:bec00000)
[    0.000000] Detected 2088.172 MHz processor.
[   59.756200] Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 260081
[   59.756204] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.gz quiet splash --
[   59.756379] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
[   59.756382] mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
[   59.756385] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[   59.756387] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[   59.756396] Initializing CPU#0
[   59.756452] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
[   59.758230] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[   59.758790] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[   59.759262] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[   59.785674] Memory: 1028184k/1048512k available (1992k kernel code, 19652k reserved, 893k data, 328k init, 131008k highmem)
[   59.785684] virtual kernel memory layout:
[   59.785685]     fixmap  : 0xfff4e000 - 0xfffff000   ( 708 kB)
[   59.785687]     pkmap   : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000   (4096 kB)
[   59.785688]     vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xff7fe000   ( 111 MB)
[   59.785689]     lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000   ( 896 MB)
[   59.785690]       .init : 0xc03d7000 - 0xc0429000   ( 328 kB)
[   59.785691]       .data : 0xc02f2264 - 0xc03d16d4   ( 893 kB)
[   59.785693]       .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc02f2264   (1992 kB)
[   59.785696] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[   59.864374] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4179.37 BogoMIPS (lpj=8358741)
[   59.864418] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
[   59.864425] SELinux:  Disabled at boot.
[   59.864442] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[   59.864598] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[   59.864607] CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
[   59.864609] CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
[   59.864612] CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000420 00000000 00000000 00000000
[   59.864623] Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
[   59.864628] Remapping vsyscall page to ffffe000
[   59.864638] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[   59.880494] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[   59.880762] Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed
[   59.880986] Early unpacking initramfs... done
[   60.171285] ACPI: Core revision 20060707
[   60.177947] ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... file /DSDT.aml not found, using machine DSDT.
[   60.180801] CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ stepping 00
[   60.180821] Total of 1 processors activated (4179.37 BogoMIPS).
[   60.181018] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
[   60.181209] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=0 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[   60.328063] Brought up 1 CPUs
[   60.328302] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
[   60.328369] Time: 23:52:19  Date: 10/11/107
[   60.328401] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[   60.328495] EISA bus registered
[   60.328499] ACPI: bus type pci registered
[   60.360541] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb470, last bus=3
[   60.360543] PCI: Using configuration type 1
[   60.360545] Setting up standard PCI resources
[   60.376944] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
[   60.376947] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
[   60.377516] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
[   60.377521] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
[   60.377753] PCI: nForce2 C1 Halt Disconnect fixup
[   60.378692] Boot video device is 0000:03:00.0
[   60.378742] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
[   60.436791] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB0._PRT]
[   60.437249] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGPB._PRT]
[   60.437443] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB1._PRT]
[   60.438410] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[   60.438677] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK2] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
[   60.438942] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
[   60.439207] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
[   60.439472] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK5] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[   60.439736] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBA] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
[   60.440008] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBB] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
[   60.440279] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMAC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[   60.440546] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LAPU] (IRQs 3 *4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
[   60.440811] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LACI] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
[   60.441081] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMCI] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[   60.441346] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSMB] (IRQs 3 *4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
[   60.441624] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUB2] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
[   60.441889] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LFIR] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
[   60.442157] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [L3CM] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
[   60.442425] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LIDE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[   60.442673] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC1] (IRQs *16), disabled.
[   60.442907] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC2] (IRQs *17), disabled.
[   60.443142] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] (IRQs *18), disabled.
[   60.443375] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC4] (IRQs *19), disabled.
[   60.443609] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC5] (IRQs *16), disabled.
[   60.443913] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCF] (IRQs 20 21 22) *0, disabled.
[   60.444217] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCG] (IRQs 20 21 22) *0, disabled.
[   60.444517] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCH] (IRQs 20 21 22) *0, disabled.
[   60.444830] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCI] (IRQs 20 21 22) *0, disabled.
[   60.445129] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCJ] (IRQs 20 21 22) *0, disabled.
[   60.445437] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCK] (IRQs 20 21 22) *0, disabled.
[   60.445672] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCS] (IRQs *23), disabled.
[   60.445971] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCL] (IRQs 20 21 22) *0, disabled.
[   60.446272] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCM] (IRQs 20 21 22) *0, disabled.
[   60.446580] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [AP3C] (IRQs 20 21 22) *0, disabled.
[   60.446880] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCZ] (IRQs 20 21 22) *0, disabled.
[   60.449119] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[   60.449130] pnp: PnP ACPI init
[   60.453485] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
[   60.453489] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
[   60.453542] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
[   60.453547] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a report
[   60.515646] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[   60.515649] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[   60.516188] pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x4000-0x407f could not be reserved
[   60.516191] pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x4080-0x40ff has been reserved
[   60.516194] pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x4400-0x447f has been reserved
[   60.516196] pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x4480-0x44ff could not be reserved
[   60.516199] pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x4200-0x427f has been reserved
[   60.516201] pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x4280-0x42ff has been reserved
[   60.516206] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x5000-0x503f has been reserved
[   60.516209] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x5500-0x553f has been reserved
[   60.516458] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:08.0
[   60.516461]   IO window: 9000-cfff
[   60.516466]   MEM window: e4000000-e5ffffff
[   60.516470]   PREFETCH window: 50000000-500fffff
[   60.516475] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:0c.0
[   60.516477]   IO window: d000-dfff
[   60.516482]   MEM window: e0000000-e1ffffff
[   60.516485]   PREFETCH window: 50100000-501fffff
[   60.516490] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
[   60.516492]   IO window: disabled.
[   60.516496]   MEM window: e2000000-e3ffffff
[   60.516499]   PREFETCH window: d0000000-dfffffff
[   60.516510] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:08.0 to 64
[   60.516516] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0c.0 to 64
[   60.516546] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[   60.555928] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[   60.556129] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
[   60.557448] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[   60.558185] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
[   60.558188] TCP reno registered
[   60.567967] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[   61.120007] Freeing initrd memory: 6968k freed
[   61.120455] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[   61.120470] audit(1194825139.448:1): initialized
[   61.120531] highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
[   61.120585] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[   61.120605] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[   61.120653] io scheduler noop registered
[   61.120656] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[   61.120659] io scheduler deadline registered
[   61.120665] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[   61.175606] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[   61.529810] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[   61.552477] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
[   61.552532] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[   61.553089] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[   61.553617] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
[   61.553839] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0
[   61.553869] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[   61.553873] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
[   61.554069] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[   61.554071] PNP: PS/2 controller doesn't have AUX irq; using default 12
[   61.557197] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[   61.557202] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[   61.557385] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[   61.557407] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 4
[   61.557409] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 5
[   61.557424] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[   61.587490] TCP cubic registered
[   61.587495] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[   61.587515] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
[   61.587571] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
[   61.587619]   Magic number: 15:636:908
[   61.587709]   hash matches device ptyz4
[   61.587770]   hash matches device port
[   61.588113] Freeing unused kernel memory: 328k freed
[   61.591046] Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
[   61.608757] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input1
[   62.804638] Capability LSM initialized
[   63.326546] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[   63.326570] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[   63.326593] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[   63.327240] ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
[   63.327627] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCF] enabled at IRQ 22
[   63.327636] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> Link [APCF] -> GSI 22 (level, high) -> IRQ 16
[   63.327650] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
[   63.327653] ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: OHCI Host Controller
[   63.327807] ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[   63.327827] ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: irq 16, io mem 0xe6084000
[   63.414607] SCSI subsystem initialized
[   63.419289] libata version 2.20 loaded.
[   63.436101] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   63.436129] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[   63.436142] hub 1-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
[   63.455016] ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
[   63.542057] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCL] enabled at IRQ 21
[   63.542067] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.2[C] -> Link [APCL] -> GSI 21 (level, high) -> IRQ 17
[   63.542083] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.2 to 64
[   63.542086] ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: EHCI Host Controller
[   63.542108] ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[   63.542145] ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: debug port 1
[   63.542150] PCI: cache line size of 64 is not supported by device 0000:00:02.2
[   63.542161] ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: irq 17, io mem 0xe6081000
[   63.542168] ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
[   63.542240] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   63.542262] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[   63.542271] hub 2-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
[   63.650526] NFORCE2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:09.0
[   63.650551] NFORCE2: chipset revision 162
[   63.650553] NFORCE2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[   63.650558] NFORCE2: BIOS didn't set cable bits correctly. Enabling workaround.
[   63.650560] NFORCE2: BIOS didn't set cable bits correctly. Enabling workaround.
[   63.650565] NFORCE2: 0000:00:09.0 (rev a2) UDMA133 controller
[   63.650576]     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
[   63.650587]     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
[   63.650596] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[   63.937371] hda: MAXTOR STM3160215A, ATA DISK drive
[   64.217137] hdb: IBM-DTLA-307030, ATA DISK drive
[   64.273722] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[   64.276527] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[   64.396878] usb 1-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
[   64.786725] usb 1-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   65.012522] hdc: ASUS DRW-1608P3S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[   65.684217] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
[   65.694713] HPT374: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:01:09.0
[   65.694935] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC2] enabled at IRQ 17
[   65.694944] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:09.0[A] -> Link [APC2] -> GSI 17 (level, high) -> IRQ 18
[   65.694955] HPT374: chipset revision 7
[   65.694969] HPT374: 100% native mode on irq 18
[   65.694978] HPT37X: using 33MHz PCI clock
[   65.695090]     ide2: BM-DMA at 0xa000-0xa007, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
[   65.695111]     ide3: BM-DMA at 0xa008-0xa00f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
[   65.695133] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:09.1[A] -> Link [APC2] -> GSI 17 (level, high) -> IRQ 18
[   65.695154] HPT37X: no clock data saved by BIOS
[   65.822282] HPT37X: using 33MHz PCI clock
[   65.822393]     ide4: BM-DMA at 0xb400-0xb407, BIOS settings: hdi:pio, hdj:pio
[   65.824121]     ide5: BM-DMA at 0xb408-0xb40f, BIOS settings: hdk:DMA, hdl:pio
[   65.824139] Probing IDE interface ide2...
[   65.840390] hda: max request size: 512KiB
[   65.886055] hda: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(100)
[   65.910425] hda: cache flushes supported
[   65.910467]  hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
[   65.947248] hdb: max request size: 128KiB
[   65.969825] hdb: 60036480 sectors (30738 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=59560/16/63, UDMA(100)
[   65.969833] hdb: cache flushes not supported
[   65.969878]  hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 hdb9 hdb10 >
[   66.071267] hdc: ATAPI 63X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2000kB Cache, UDMA(66)
[   66.071275] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[   66.395337] Probing IDE interface ide3...
[   66.962895] Probing IDE interface ide4...
[   67.152405] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[   67.152417] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[   67.530460] Probing IDE interface ide5...
[   67.818680] hdk: ST3160023AS, ATA DISK drive
[   68.116328] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[   68.156009] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
[   68.214834] Registering unionfs 20060916-2203
[   68.214838] unionfs: debugging is not enabled
[   68.225524] loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
[   68.490290] ide5 at 0xac00-0xac07,0xb002 on irq 18
[   68.490362] hdk: max request size: 512KiB
[   68.490850] hdk: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(100)
[   68.491041] hdk: cache flushes supported
[   68.491081]  hdk: [LDM] hdk1
[   68.586609] sata_sil 0000:01:0b.0: version 2.2
[   68.586822] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] enabled at IRQ 18
[   68.586830] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:0b.0[A] -> Link [APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, high) -> IRQ 19
[   68.586915] ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xf884a080 ctl 0xf884a08a bmdma 0xf884a000 irq 19
[   68.586946] ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xf884a0c0 ctl 0xf884a0ca bmdma 0xf884a008 irq 19
[   68.586960] scsi0 : sata_sil
[   69.109259] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
[   69.117797] ata1.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 234441648, hpa_sectors = 234441648
[   69.117800] ata1.00: ATA-6: ST3120023AS, 3.01, max UDMA/133
[   69.117803] ata1.00: 234441648 sectors, multi 16: LBA 
[   69.117805] ata1.00: applying bridge limits
[   69.117808] ata1.00: applying Seagate errata fix (mod15write workaround)
[   69.125798] ata1.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 234441648, hpa_sectors = 234441648
[   69.125802] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[   69.126586] scsi1 : sata_sil
[   69.592883] ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
[   69.602613] ata2.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 390721968, hpa_sectors = 390721968
[   69.602616] ata2.00: ATA-6: WDC WD2000JD-00GBB0, 02.05D02, max UDMA/100
[   69.602619] ata2.00: 390721968 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 
[   69.602621] ata2.00: applying bridge limits
[   69.610609] ata2.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 390721968, hpa_sectors = 390721968
[   69.610612] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100
[   69.610707] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3120023AS      3.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   69.611096] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      WDC WD2000JD-00G 02.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   69.611793] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCM] enabled at IRQ 20
[   69.611802] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0d.0[A] -> Link [APCM] -> GSI 20 (level, high) -> IRQ 20
[   69.611809] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0d.0 to 64
[   69.666244] ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[20]  MMIO=[e6082000-e60827ff]  Max Packet=[2048]  IR/IT contexts=[4/4]
[   69.676494] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [AP3C] enabled at IRQ 22
[   69.676500] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> Link [AP3C] -> GSI 22 (level, high) -> IRQ 16
[   69.676510] 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
[   69.676515] 0000:02:01.0: 3Com PCI 3c920 Tornado at f8958000.
[   69.700281] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCG] enabled at IRQ 21
[   69.700285] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.1[B] -> Link [APCG] -> GSI 21 (level, high) -> IRQ 17
[   69.700297] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.1 to 64
[   69.700300] ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: OHCI Host Controller
[   69.700473] ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[   69.700492] ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: irq 17, io mem 0xe6080000
[   69.706204] SCSI device sda: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB)
[   69.706218] sda: Write Protect is off
[   69.706221] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   69.706234] SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   69.706294] SCSI device sda: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB)
[   69.706302] sda: Write Protect is off
[   69.706305] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   69.706317] SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   69.706320]  sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5<6>usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   69.755243] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[   69.755256] hub 3-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
[   69.755398]  sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 >
[   69.791956] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
[   69.792106] SCSI device sdb: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB)
[   69.792117] sdb: Write Protect is off
[   69.792120] sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   69.792133] SCSI device sdb: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   69.792178] SCSI device sdb: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB)
[   69.792186] sdb: Write Protect is off
[   69.792188] sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   69.792200] SCSI device sdb: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   69.792203]  sdb: sdb1 < sdb5 sdb6 >
[   69.835054] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb
[   69.839048] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[   69.839069] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[   70.160422] usb 3-2: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
[   70.375208] usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   70.389214] usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
[   70.395347] input: Dell Dell USB Mouse as /class/input/input2
[   70.395454] input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Dell Dell USB Mouse] on usb-0000:00:02.1-2
[   70.395468] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[   70.395472] drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
[   70.405519] squashfs: version 3.2-r2 (2007/01/15) Phillip Lougher
[  142.447056] eth0:  setting full-duplex.
[  143.626143] Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
[  143.667302] agpgart: Detected NVIDIA nForce2 chipset
[  143.683077] agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xc0000000
[  143.768591] i2c_adapter i2c-0: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x5000
[  143.768627] i2c_adapter i2c-1: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x5500
[  144.033590] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[  144.369122] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[  144.735828] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[  144.737436] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input3
[  144.911630] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
[  144.911692] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
[  145.322644] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
[  145.322727] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[  145.322729] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[  145.322733] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[  145.325673] Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.9
[  145.455577] usbcore: registered new interface driver hci_usb
[  146.672809] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCJ] enabled at IRQ 20
[  146.672816] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:06.0[A] -> Link [APCJ] -> GSI 20 (level, high) -> IRQ 20
[  146.672842] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:06.0 to 64
[  146.993107] intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 52800 usecs
[  146.993111] intel8x0: clocking to 48000
[  147.317997] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[  147.318103] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[  148.248045] fuse init (API version 7.8)
[  148.708716] Adding 3943916k swap on /dev/hda5.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:3943916k
[  149.866542] usb 1-3: USB disconnect, address 2
[  151.081962] usb 1-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
[  151.472321] usb 1-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[  155.610145] input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input4
[  155.614464] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[  155.652485] input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input5
[  155.656819] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[  155.698287] No dock devices found.
[  155.720024] Using specific hotkey driver
[  155.770892] ibm_acpi: ec object not found
[  155.926790] pcc_acpi: loading...
[  157.505000] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[  168.304985] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[  168.603287] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[  174.997851] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[  174.997856] apm: overridden by ACPI.
[  177.659032] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
[  177.659036] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[  178.046420] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[  178.046533] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[  178.046536] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
[  180.855001] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
root@ubuntu:~# 

and fstab......
unionfs / unionfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

Surely one of you gurus out there can look and compare the above and tell me how to get my drive working when I boot from the hard drive install.......Please.