Asmedia Sata Controller and Linux

Hi All
Built a new system today, got an asus board that has both intel sata and Asmedia sata. I have one HDD connected to the Asmedia controller as all others are full, but i cannot get nix to see the hdd, fdisk shows nothing.
lspci:
04:00.0 PCI bridge: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM108x PCIe to PCI Bridge Controller (rev 01)
[b]06:00.0 IDE interface: ASMedia Technology Inc. Device 0611 (rev 01)[/b]
07:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1042 SuperSpeed USB Host Controller
the one in bold is the one i am trying to access i presume, googled but didnt find much, anyone had this issue before.

ls dev If the unit is usb3.0 try lsusb. Dunno if your device is pcie or mobo provided. Very little info on the asmedia devices and slow to adopt them in the industry,

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Case Problem: I have an MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR Socket A motherboard with an onboard Promise FastTrack 376 SATA RAID controller. I wish to continue booting my OS from a single SATA drive on this controller, while using a RAID0 array on my FastTrack TX2200 controller. When the TX2200 is installed and the array is attached, it is detected as C: by the motherboard BIOS and the active boot drive as D:. The TX2200 is detected during boot (after POST) first, the onboard contoller second. I have tested the TX2200 in...
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Originally posted by chasmon
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Don't spam man! I posted something to this same question in another thread.. from you no less! Make a new thread! lol
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