I couldn't find anything in BIOS that might be causing this. I didn't see
the boot order any different. Would that have anything to do with this
problem as I am not booting from a different drive ever. The SATA and the
IDE are drives secondary drives. I am wondering if it has anything to do
where I have the IDE drives plugged into the Promise card.
It is doubtful, genearally the issue with having multiplie
"raid" controllers is which takes precedence and if/when
that one doesn't have a viable boot volume, whether it also
trys the others. That is, presuming you've not changed them
around since they were last working, as you had described
only adding the SATA drive.
Yes, the bios settings, particularly boot order are the
place to look at making changes. That is, if after
entering each raid controllers' setup menu, both are seeing
their connected drives, as that is a prerequisite for use.