par. ata not seen if sata is present

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First let me note several facts then ask the question:

~    * The PATA drives in question used to work under 8-current AMD64 
(last time I tried it was about 3 months ago) if the SATA drive was 
connected (see dmesg output below for details) on the same mother board 
[only hardware difference is I added a pci-e video card replacing the 
pci one I had]

~    * The BIOS doesn't see them (thus FreeBSD doesn't see them [I 
already am aware of this])

~    * Vista *DOES* see them

~    * I tried every jumper and cable combo (even a low grade IDE cable 
and a UDMA133 cable)

~    * The BIOS only has two settings relating to IDE (besides for drive 
autodetect) bus master and if the ata chip should support IDE or not (I 
tried both and the only effect was if it was not set to support IDE no 
drives what so ever are seen).

Diag output from FreeBSD:

atacontrol list:

ATA channel 2:
~    Master:      no device present
~    Slave:       no device present
ATA channel 3:
~    Master:      no device present
~    Slave:       no device present
ATA channel 4:
~    Master:  ad8 <ST3500630AS/3.AAE> Serial ATA II
~    Slave:       no device present
ATA channel 5:
~    Master:      no device present
~    Slave:       no device present
ATA channel 6:
~    Master:      no device present
~    Slave:       no device present
ATA channel 7:
~    Master:      no device present

Note: shouldn't ata4 be ata2 or something close since the phsyical cable 
is plugged into SATA1 (there is no SATA0) on the mother board

dmesg|grep ata:

atapci0: <Marvell ATA controller> port 
0xdc00-0xdc07,0xd880-0xd883,0xd800-0xd807,0xd480-0xd483,0xd400-0xd40f 
mem 0xfeaffc00-0xfeafffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3
atapci0: [ITHREAD]
ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata2: [ITHREAD]
ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
ata3: [ITHREAD]
atapci1: <Intel ICH9 SATA300 controller> port 
0xb000-0xb007,0xac00-0xac03,0xa880-0xa887,0xa800-0xa803,0xa480-0xa48f,0xa400-0xa40f 
irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0
atapci1: [ITHREAD]
ata4: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
ata4: [ITHREAD]
ata5: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1
ata5: [ITHREAD]
atapci2: <Intel ICH9 SATA300 controller> port 
0xa000-0xa007,0x9c00-0x9c03,0x9880-0x9887,0x9800-0x9803,0x9480-0x948f,0x9400-0x940f 
irq 19 at device 31.5 on pci0
atapci2: [ITHREAD]
ata6: <ATA channel 0> on atapci2
ata6: [ITHREAD]
ata7: <ATA channel 1> on atapci2
ata7: [ITHREAD]
ad8: 476940MB <Seagate ST3500630AS 3.AAE> at ata4-master SATA300



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