Ok i woke up this morning and come to find out that we lost power some time last night. I went to check on the server because i figured it would be up. well it up running but when i hit the mouse to turn on the monitor to my surprise i see;
Verifying DMI Pool Data.......................
Boot from CD: GRUB Geom Error

nothing happens after that it will sit there forever. So i was like ok ill see if i can do a recovery. I poped in my rh8 cd tryed doing the recovery. It searched for a linux install and didnt find anything. So i said to my self try installing and see if it notices the hdd. I reboot the computer i click the GUI install and then when it detects my hdds the only HDD that is detected is my 80GB Maxtor.
My IBM 40gb is not detected by linux. The bios sees the IBM just fine but not linux. I am at a loss on what to do here.

Try to see if you can select an option in your BIOS that will load optimized values for your system or autodetect you IDE devices. If your BIOS can't see your drive, well, then, you've got a problem.

Some troubleshooting steps.
Check and re-check the power connectors and data cables for your drive. Can you hear that drive spinning up? Swap out the drive to a different controller (primary to secondary or vice-versa). Are there any slave drives in the equation? CD/CD-R/DVD drives?