AHCI should only be needed if you want to hotplug the drive.
Your first method (connecting the drive, powering it, and then booting the computer) should have worked, it does for me when I need to hook up an eSATA drive to my machine. Given that it didn't, and you tested a few things, I'd...
I sent in a $30 MIR for my IP35 Pro on 11/10/07. I'm still waiting. Their tracking system doesn't show anything and I never got an e-mail from them to tell me that they received it.
I searched around a few weeks ago and found a thread on their forums where a bunch of people were...
Yes, I have.
A lot of the stuff is set to auto and doesn't seem like it would affect driver operation like this. Things like LBA Addressing and Ultra-DMA type.
The one thing I did try to change was some setting for "32-bit data transferring" which was initially disabled. That changed...
First off, the specs:
Asus p4c800 Deluxe
1gb (2x512) OCZ DDR500 ram running @ 200 MHz
P4 2.4C running @ stock
Ati radeon 9800 pro @ stock
Audigy 2 ZS
74 GB sata raptor (OS drive)
120 GB IDE Western Digital drive (master)
250 GB IDE Seagate drive (slave)
Sony IDE DVD-Rom (master)
NEC...