Another thing to check is the default interface speed for your main SATA ports: you may need to add a jumper to each SATA HDD if their defaults conflict with the chipset's defaults.
If you are not using any SATA ports, you can completely disable them in your BIOS, as one diagnostic experiment.
BEST WAY, if you're not sure, is to force your SATA HDDs to default to 150MB/second, because the newer chipsets can detect that speed automatically, whereas the older chipsets do not support 300MB/second.
Also, double-check your BIOS settings at "IDE Configuration", because that setting may be wrong for what you are trying to do now.
A BIOS setting of "Standard IDE" may only work at 150MB/second. A setting of either "AHCI" or "RAID" may be required to support 300MB/second SATA ports.
MRFS
Message edited by MRFS on 09-21-2009 at 02:28:02 AM