Your problem is probably not specific to the motherboard. The only thing you could do with the jumpers is set them to master, with no slave. It should say on the top of the drive what jumper setting that is. After that, try replacing the cable. After that, reset the bios. Finally, give it one more try with all the same cables and jumper settings on a couple other boards and then ship that sucker back to Abit. These days, if you can't get a HD to work when the jumpers are right, some hardware is defective, you just gotta find out what.
I almost went and bought a new DVD drive, as my computer wouldn't boot with its IDE cable plugged in, but when I went to unplug it one last time, the cable fell apart. I replaced that, and now everything works fine.