on board RAID chip

[ChadDavis]

I have a Gigabyte mother board that has second and third IDE channels that are controlled by an onboard RAID chip.  The chip is a Gigabyte deal I think.  In the bios, I can configure the RAID controller to simply view the channels as IDE/ATA ( the chip only supports harddrives ).  I moved my harddrive over to the second channel and tried to boot.  The boot seeemed to be going okay until the root file system was mounted and then the boot hung.

Here's my guesses about what is going on. 

1)  I assume that the  bios boot  processing works fine because it has nothing to do with linux, it just goes and gets the boot stuff from the harddrive.

2)  the kernel is in memory becuase it was done in step one

3)  when the kernel, linux itself, tries to read the harddrive ( after mounting the root file system ) it can't do it

4)  my guess is that linux needs a driver to control their proprietary chip?  Does this sound accurate to those more knowledgeable than myself? 

Please let me  know if my guesses about what is happening seem on the mark.  Also, please give advice on how to proceed.

Chad