SATA drive with 8.2 installation

I have a P4C800 Asus board with a 160 gb Seagate SATA drive. When I insert the boot disk to do an nfs install of 8.2 It gets all the way to ide device driver while it is loading the kernal and then freezes. It seems to not like that fact that I don't have a regualr ide drive attached. I have gone into bios and told it that SATA is the primary drive. Has anyone had any experience here that could help me or is Suse 8.2 just not capable right now of installing on a computer that only has a SATA drive