On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:12:09 -0500 (EST) 
 "Paul H. Anderson" <pha@pdq.com> wrote:

 > I'd still like advice on making an IDE bootable disk on a PC164
 > motherboard, but at least I'm not in as much trouble as I thought I was.

A genuine PC164 is not able to boot from IDE, because no firmware available
for it has IDE disk support.  (They can, however, boot from ATAPI CDROMs,
I think, in the latest firware for them, which is why it can see your
controller...)

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>