>>>What am I missing? Is it odd to have two SATA controllers for a
>>>single disk drive, or is that at all relevant?
>>
>> You don't, it would be odd :)
>
>Actually, we do - it is configured to have two SATA controllers in it.
Heh, Actually you don't "have two SATA controllers for a single disk drive"
but you have two controllers.
As the last poster suggested, use AHCI for Linux.
jlc
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