ARC path (boot.ini) for SATA on Promise contr. (KT6d)

Hi!
I've recently purchased and installed my first SATA disk, connected to my Promise SATA/RAID controller on my K6 delta motherboard. It is a ghosted duplicate of my old system disk, and now I struggle with the boot.ini file, which still addresses my old disk for boot of Windows XP, in stead of my new one.
The boot.ini files reads:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=scsi(2)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
scsi(2)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="NEW Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
The first OS line (multi....) is my old disk, which I have kept for backup purposes. The second line is supposed to be my new SATA disk on the first of the two slots on my Promise integrated SATA RAID controller. Problem is, this disk is not found by Windows XP during boot. I have tried the two following configurations for the ARC path:
scsi(2)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)
scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)
Both without luck. Anyone got any idea how to modify boot.ini to make it boot of my disk (which is the first and only SATA disk on my Promise controller)? The BIOS seems to indicate that the SCSI controller is marked as "2", thus the "scsi(2)" line, but even with "scsi(0)" it fails.
PS: If I boot using my old disk, the new SATA disk pops up, so the disk and controller is fine, and there is only one partition on the disk.
PPS: The actual error message is as follows:
Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem.
Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.
Please check the Windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information.

Thanks for the tip (and the links) - didn't know the Via controller was better, I'll switch
But, using the VIA controller, it wil still be detected as a SCSI disk, right? In which case I'll still need to know the "ARC path" (on the format scsi(x)disk(y) etc.) for my boot.ini. I guess I could just try the most likely combinations, but if anyone knows which ARC path to use for the VIA or Promise I'd be much obliged
I can still use my VIA SATA even though I am still having regular IDE devices on all my EIDE ports, right? (Meaning, there is no conflict where I have to choose either ATA/IDEA or SATA for my VIA controller, thus rendering one of my EIDE disks unconnected if I enable the SATA?)

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