SATA Drive Won't Initiate Normal Bootup

I have a 250 GB ATA internal drive set up to use as my OS X bootup drive, made up of five partitions (one being the bootup volume of 40 GB; identified as 'XBoot'). I recently installed a 300 GB SATA drive (Maxtor 6V300F0) in place of another previously used ATA drive, using an OWC SATAPCI2P PCI card (which is spec'ed as supporting bootup), and the SATA drive has run fine.
I have decided to use a partition on the SATA drive (volume of around 45 GB) to clone a copy of my 'XBoot' bootup volume to, using SuperDuper!. I had done this same bootup drive cloning function onto one of my other ATA drives, and found it to work great for troubleshooting, tryouts of products and general backup; bootups of the ATA clone functioned perfectly.
I set up partitions on the SATA drive (set up in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format), zeroed-out its 'bootup' volume (identified as 'SXBoot'), and copied my 'XBoot' bootup volume to 'SXBoot'. On completion of the cloning I attempted to start up from 'SXBoot' (using System Preferences:Startup Disk to select it); startup ran only to the point of a grey screen displaying the Apple logo and spinning 'beachball', and then to lockup of that screen with a couple of herringbone patterns running through it. I had to power down and back up to get running, and found the system came back to startup via 'XBoot'. I repeated this sequence a few more times, with the same result.
At this point I considered 1) there might be a problem due to SuperDuper!, 2) a problem due to the OWC card, or 3) a problem with the Maxtor SATA drive.
I then erased volume 'SXBoot', and made a direct install of OS X 10.4 to it via DVD in an attempt to check for a problem with SuperDuper!'s cloning. I then restarted my system via System Preferences:Startup Disk, with 'SXBoot' selected. The same problem reappeared. Additional runs in this manner repeated this result. Conclusion: SuperDuper! is not causing the problem.
I then decided to start up using Startup Manager (holding the Option key down during startup) to see if I could select 'SXBoot' successfully via that path. In about 15 seconds an 'XBoot' icon showed up on the Startup Manager screen; after approximately 7 or 8 seconds an 'SXBoot' icon showed up as well. I clicked on the 'SXBoot' icon and then on the screen's arrow; startup went forward, coming up with 'SXBoot' as the boot drive, as desired!This gave further confirmation that SuperDuper! was not at fault, since I had a good bootup.
I then selected 'SXBoot' as the startup volume via System Preferences: Startup Disk, and initiated a restart. This led to bootup via 'XBoot'... lost the Startup Disk setup of 'SXBoot'. Repeated the sequence of starting up using Startup Manager a few more times, with the same results: an initial bootup via 'SXBoot', followed by a restart and a return to bootup via 'XBoot' instead of 'SXBoot'.
This point of success (an initial startup via 'SXBoot' via Startup Manager) leads me to conclude that the basic bootup function of the OWC card is not the source of the problem, but.......
After searching through forums and other literature, I found a few references/suggestions which led me to consider that perhaps the OS X startup sequence is making a choice of startup volume before all drives (specifically, the SATA drive) have come up to speed to where they may be recognized in time (reference the 7 to 8 seconds noted above between 'XBoot' and 'SXBoot' appearances in the Startup Manager window). Or, there may still be something in the operation of the OWC card that doesn't like the configuration of several bootable drives.
I'm hoping somebody may have seen a solution for this type of problem, with experience in using the OWC card.
Relative to my thoughts above on timing issues, does anyone know of a way to get to the system level and extend the timing before selection of a bootup drive is made?
Thanks
PowerMac G4 FW800 1.25 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2 GB RAM, 4 Int HDs (ATA & SATA)

Vernon,
What I'm attempting to do isn't really all that wierd. I did it with 'straight' ATA drives, with the bootable backup providing me a means to try out new software without disturbing the state of my normal bootable drive, and such. Also gives me the means to boot up via the backup if something has gone wrong with the 'normal' boot drive. Lots of other things.
My problem is that the SATA configuration of OWC PCI card and Maxtor SATA drive(s) won't boot up normally via selection of my SXBoot volume via System Preference's Startup Disk. Only way I can get bootup of SXBoot is via the manual use of Startup Manager (the Option key held while starting or restarting) and picking SXBoot via that route.
The SATA drive/volumes work fine, just not for bootup.
I have erased the SATA drive several times now, both before cloning, via SuperDuper!, and before a clean install of OS X.
Therein lies the problem.
The OWC card supports the 1.5 Gig configuration, and the Maxtor does have a jumper to select that mode of operation/support. Otherwise, there are no other settings on the Maxtor.
Appreciate your taking the time to respond.
What is it that you're not happy about with your SATA configuration?
PowerMac G4 FW800 1.25 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2 GB RAM, 4 Int HDs (ATA & SATA)

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I work at an Official AMD Service Center and we build Custom AMD64 Systems. The IDE Boot Delay was removed from the latest BIOS update. Thanks to this, SATA drives are having problems booting up. SATA Drives are taking too long to spool up, so the system moves on to the next Device on the bootup priority list. (One customer was booting up from a external USB 2.0 Drive or CD-Rom Drive (Not bootable media). If we disable everything but the Hard Drive from the selection, sometimes we get a Stop after Post Error We build systems with the SATA drives due to them supposedly being faster. Should we switch to IDE drives for the boot drives, or is there a fix for this problem. Please let me know and send an email to [email protected] . Thank You.
-Richard D. Orr-
Sales Retail Rep /Bench Tech Representative
CyberSmart Computers, Pensacola, FL

I'm experiancing the same problem with this board. I purchased back in february and tired a SATA drive then and it was slower then molassas in the snow. I thought is was a windows issue. I bought the board for Linux and loaded Fedora 3 and Fedora 4-64 on a PATA drive and have had it running almost flawlessly ever since. The main problem has been the reboot freeze that is reported all over the web.
I put a SATA drive back into this system as a dual boot, loaded Win2k and once again slooooooow. Download all the latest drivers, tried again, same thing.
Today it freezes on the boot screen, still loades my Linux no problem and runs Folding@Home 24/7 no problem.
Ok, Flash bios from CD built on WinXP - No problem goes well.
Reboot problem seems better but now it won't reboot from linux, have to hit reset
Voltage controls for fans no longer available Still no controls for raising frontside bus
Still won't recognize the drive. Put drive in K7NF Delta, Boots fine (complains about drivers but expected). Drive is OK feew.
Rebooted Linux from PATA and system is fine.
Brand new MSI X850XT sits in box unopened

K8T800 Neo-V V1.0 - SATA Drive Problem

Hi everyone,
I'm becoming a little frustrated with my computer at the moment because it's being very tempremental with regards to detecting my Western Digital 500GB Sata drive. Most of the time it doesn't recognise it, but earlier on today (or rather yesterday now) it did show up on my XP O/S which I am currently running on a small IDE drive.
I normally use my WD 500GB drive as my main drive, and a 200GB Maxtor IDE drive as a storage drive however, my SATA drive suddenly developed a problem with VISTA which kept me from viewing my desktop. After resetting the bios to the default setting I installed XP Pro onto a smal IDE drive so that I could update the bios drivers for my mainboard. However, I have the most recent drivers for everything, but my SATA drive STILL won't show up. It takes a long time for the mainboard to boot after searching for IDE drives (which I assume is searching for SATA drives) and then it boots XP from the IDE Drive
My question is, how the hell can I get my XP installation to recognise my SATA drive again. I managed it once, but ever since then it's vanished. I have jumpered my SATA drive to run in 150mb p/s but did no luck. Also changed my 'On-Chip SATA-IDE Controller' setting in bios to SATA but still no luck
Can somebody PLEASE point me in the right direction? I'm usually able to sort simple things like this out - but this one has me at the end of my teather
I'm also running bios version 5.10 (Which is VERY different to the previous version that I've been used to)
Many thanks in advance,
Adam

Quote from: TechnoRocker on 04-June-09, 01:13:33
I intend to, but I don't have a cable spare. You only provided one with the mainboard and so I will have to go out and purchase another cable. We'll see what happens and I'll report back soon.
What bios version is best and most stable?
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What bios version is best and most stable?
Which works for you.
What was your BIOS version and what's current version installed?
Also ID your mainboard, look here for details ==> https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=113146.0
or paste mainboard serial number
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I intend to, but I don't have a cable spare.
Well find it from somewhere.
Also some moments are not clear to me:
* Does this HDD worked before fine in your machine?
* What was your final action before issue to come?
* When the HDD is "missing" in your OS, does the BIOS detect it?
* Do you flashed your BIOS before issue to come or not? If yes provide info about your old version and current BIOS installed.

SATA Drive Won't Initiate Normal Bootup

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