WARNING: BIOS 1.8 SATA with PATA Problems

I run a S-ATA drive as my primary hard drive, and occasionally run a P-ATA as a secondary.
I upgraded to bios 1.8 only to discover that when you choose "Native" mode, then select "S-ATA and P-ATA", the native selection is automatically returned to "Legacy" mode, and you are not allowed to change it back.
With the setting like this, I am able to run my P-ATA as primary with my S-ATA as secondary, but when I run my S-ATA as primary, my P-ATA is not detected.
I flashed back to bios 1.7, and everything works fine.
BTW---I was unable to flash back to 1.7 using the Bios Recovery feature.  As such, it was a pain in the butt to flash back to 1.7.
More fine bios consistency from MSI.  X(

Ah Well Onward and Upward!
I can now see my CDRW & DVDROM as well as my P-ATAs AND boot from the S-ATA BUT ........... NOT as advised by setting the ATA Configuration to "S-ATA Only" but to P-ATA Only!!!!
This enables the CDRW & DVDROM without disabling the P-ATA Maxtors OR stopping the machine booting from the S-ATA Maxtor!
SO contrary to expert advice I have only had success using S-ATA + P-ATA or Combined mode or P-ATA only!!
S-ATA Only is useless! It either drops something (the P-ATAs or the CDs) or will not find the boot sector!!
Go figure!
One thing it has me good and scared from flashing the BIOS and dropping what functionality I have!!!
So now I have this setup
ON CHIP IDE CONFIGURATION
Onchip ATAs Operate Mode - P-ATA ONLY
S-ATA keep enabled - YES
P-ATA keep enables - N/A
P-ATA Channel Selection - BOTH
Combined Mode Option - N/A
S-ATA Ports Definition - P0-1st / P1-2nd ??
Configure S-ATA as RAID - N/A
Note the S-ATA as RAID option is now greyed out and unavailable .... so much for buying another 120Gb S-ATA Maxtor and going RAID!!
IF I USE S-ATA ONLY
For some reason with all the Disks and drives working I cannot get the S-ATA anywhere but IDE-2 which stubbornly refuses to boot, returning an error message "Boot Sector not found"!!
WITH P-ATA ONLY
The S-ATA is IDE-0 (and PRIMARY Master)
Secondary Master & Slave are empty
3rd Master & Slave are the P-ATAs
4th Master & Slave are the CDRW & DVDROM.
I think all in all I am better using the "legacy OS, P-ATA + S-ATA combined mode" as it gives me access to all my hardware without disabling the RAID!
If anyone (especially from MSI) can explain what the hell is going on here I would be very much obliged!!!

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