Booting from SATA PCI Cards

My SATA ports/controller on my motherboard have died, so I was thinking of connecting the drive with my OS through a PCI SATA card. But in all the reviews I've read, some people complain that they can't boot from a drive connected through the card.

I have a simple set up with a single seagate drive (Barracuda 7200.8 250 gb), amd processor (athlon 64 x2 4400+), asus a8n5x mobo, and windows xp.


Anyone have suggestions on a particular card that I can boot from? Is there a better solution, like connecting it to IDE instead? I'd need a sata>ide converter cable since the drive doesn't have an ide out port.

Thanks!