Well guys Im having the same problem here
Im using a MSI K8T NEO FI2SR mainboard and it has the VIA SATA controller....my SATA drive is a Hitachi Deskstar 160GB
When I start the mandrake installer after a few while it gives the same message
Installing driver for disk/ide|scsi|hardware_raid|firewire card VIA Technologies Inc|VT 8237 SATA150 Controller
and hangs there forever
I do have another Windows XP SP2 installed on the primary partition of the SATA drive....I dont know whats wrong with it...seems no one
knows a solution