MHDD sata factors

[B-Navigator]

Ok, I'm trying to use MHDD to diagnose a hard drive problem. I've downloaded the iso to a disk and booted from it successfully, and it seems to run without trouble, until after it autodetects the drives. The output shows three items that match up with the three drives attached to my motherboards sata ports, but only the DVD drive i'm booting the CD from actually has an entry written on it. The other two entries are both blank, and won't respond to any of the commands.
In general terms, one of the drives is a Hitachi, the second a western digital, their both plugged into an ASUS M4a79xtd motherboard, and the bios detects both hard drives just fine. What could be the problem, and how do I fix it? Will I need to look into setting up a floppy drive and find a usable disk? I haven't hooked one to a machine in years, but if an edit to MHDD is the solution, I'm pretty sure I've still got the hardware lying around somewhere.

Any advice would be appreciated, thank you.

[fzabkar]

Try configuring the SATA controller for legacy or IDE compatibility mode in the BIOS setup. This will make the hard drives look like PATA discs.