VT6421A based SATA adapter non-bootable

Hello to all fellow Archers. I have an ancient; 1998ish mobo (Asus P3V133), which obviously has no SATA ports. I bought a £6 SATA adapter off eBay (Pluscom 4 port SATA PCI based on VT6421A chip, product code S4P-VT6421A) to connect up my brand new 1.5 TB Samsung EcoGreen. Th problem began when I found out it's non-bootable. Here's what I tried:
-PLoP boot floppy - chainloads succesfully to GRUB on the drive which boots the system
-GRUB boot floppy - not working. It doesn't detect the hard drive at all. I could have made the floppy incorrectly so I don't rule this one out completely as working.
I would go for the PLoP floppy but it doesn't boot straightaway, the boot is supposed to be unattended.
I can try connecting up a 3GB IDE HDD, putting kernel+initrd, booting from there with root as SATA partition. But then I wouldn't have any bay left if I'd want another drive.
I could also flash the BIOS with added ROM for this controller. However, I'd really like to make this one the last resort. The mobo I'm using is the best one out af all the old ones I have . I'd really hate to lose it due to a bad flash from which I can't recover easily. I have a similar board laying around with less features on it (6BX/ZX/VIA86 v1.2), I could do a test run on it if the flashing is really required.
Please, advise me. I don't know what to do.
EDIT: Fixed the text and added details.
Last edited by xc1024 (2010-08-07 23:04:08)

Yes, you are right. I want to use it, if it wasn't the case I wouldn't buy it .
As for the link, I was looking at something like that. The problem is, those things aren't exactly reliable (think "Made in China") or cost effective (12 GBP for 2 of those vs 6.15 for 1 adapter card).
Also, the thing is that I wanted to assemble this computer with as low costs as possible, ideally for free. I did have most of the hardware save for the HDD. I initially wanted an IDE 500GB but those were more expensive than equivalent SATA ones. So I just bought a 1.5TB SATA (which was a discount BTW). I already invested much more money than I wanted so I'm going to try and cope with what I have now.

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