Hard Drive 'write error'

Hi,
I have a 12" 867 MHZ powerbook that is having problems seeing/writing to its HD.
I have replaced the drive with a ata 100, 160GB HD as before the machine saw its internal drive but could not write to it. Assuming it was the HD I replaced it so that I could recover the data on the other drive. When connecting the drive externally the data was fine and could be read and written to....
With both the old and new drives installed the machine, it would allways freeze when trying to find a bootable drive when you held down option (can some one please remind me what they call this).
With the new drive installed and booted from CD, I opened disk utility to prepare the drive ready for writing to/using. However I find it listed as a CAMSENG 28GB rather than a SAMSUNG 160GB.
I think this must be the IDE controller gone, could some one please confirm this? or perhaps give me tips on how to do a logicboard reset etc?
Many thanks

bold:
The issue is either in the ribbon cable or the logic board. If the latter it cannot be reset. If it is a matter of a solder joint, there are outfits that do reballing. There are also outfits like DT&T Computer Services that will repair your logic board, but it may not be worth the cost. You can send them an email and call for more information.
cornelius

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