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I have a Phoenix bios. I can hit F9 to load the boot menu while it is still detecting devices. This is normally when you would hit delete, F12, etc to get into the setup. Anyway, the boot menu loads and I can select whichever device I want to boot no matter the sequence specified in setup. Have you tried to do this? If you can do that, then you can force it to boot the sata device first.
Also, I don't think it matters, but have you tried setting the jumpers on your IDE drives to cable select?