SATA Port/Controller diagnosis?

I'm new to this forum and have read just about all I can read all over the internet in the past day trying to nail down my issue with no luck. I'll try to make it short.
I purchased an iMac G5 iSight yesterday, no hard drive. I took the front bezel off, removed LCD. Installed HDD and cable. Booted with CD, it would not recognize the HDD, it is getting power, it is spinning.
I hooked up the Sata Cable to my Power book via USB and formatted and erased the drive, using the power from the G5.
Still no luck, so my attention went to the SATA port itself. I removed the logic board and re-flowed the port just to be sure. No change.
Is there some way to test the storage controller or SATA port?
Thanks for any light you may shed!

Hey zeecar and Welcome to Apple forums,
Booted with CD, it would not recognize the HDD, it is getting power, it is spinning.
So it this a new hard drive? If so it is probably formatted in a PC format and Disk Utility won't see it unless it's erased and reformatted in a Mac format. Once you select "erase" it should see the drive.
Installed HDD and cable
Was the SATA cable missing when you bought the iSight?
I hooked up the Sata Cable to my Power book via USB
So you used a SATA to USB adapter to plug it into your PowerBook?
Is there some way to test the storage controller or SATA
I've never had to do that since I've never seen that go bad. Can the iSight see a drive plugged into the FireWire port? If you had a FireWire cable you could test that with your PowerBook by putting the PB into target mode.
If that works a viable option would be to run your iSight off an external FireWire drive.
Otherwise did you check that SATA data connector carefully? If someone pulled the cable when they took the original HD it might be damaged.
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    You can test to see what works best for you, but I have found this to work best on my systems. The use of SATA II w/ HDD's are of little consequence while the boot up delay caused by the ASMEDIA controller is a bit irritating. Not to mention, the performance of the ASMEDIA controller is not as good as the Z77 controller.
    You are wright on that XMAD, even with latest Bios versions i though that wen better but on boot time bot not really, they just removed the info that Asmedia was on loading/ scanning.
    Now about performance i already knew that they weren't better than the Intel controller but not expecting that worse. Done some testing with AIDA64.
    Intel Z77/C216 AHCI mode:
    ASMedia 1061 AHCI mode:
    As you see reading results are so bad that i didn't bother doing writing benchmarks.
    Seeing this i have to reformulate my opinion. In your case don't even bother to use ASMedia, better to plug your ssd in sata port 1 and the other 2 HDDs in sata port 3/4, use the RAID mode.
    Note: just make sure you have TRIM command enable in Windows.
    Quote
    How to Enable TRIM Command
    In the Elevated command Prompt windows, type the following:
    fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 0
    How to Disable TRIM Command
    In the Elevated command Prompt windows, type the following:
    fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 1
    How do I know if TRIM is working in Windows 7?
    In the Elevated command Prompt windows, type the following:
    fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify
    Results explained below:
    DisableDeleteNotify = 1 (Windows TRIM commands are disabled)
    DisableDeleteNotify = 0 (Windows TRIM commands are enabled)

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