question on SATA

Hy, I am a newbie in Linux. green one. Really green... Now I want to install Suse on my computer. I am running at P4 2.6 on an MSI 875P board and I have 2 hds. First one is a serial ata HD Western Digital 8 megs cache. 2-nd one is a normal PATA IDE Western Digital 8 megs cache. I boot with the Suse eval cd. and it freezes up once it start searching for my hds. What can I do to correct this problem? Thank you. P.S. If I am in the bad forum please excuse-me and tell me what the "good" forum is for asking this kinda questions.