12 SATA ports via PCI-X slots

[dieterbsd at engineer.com]

>>> - The optional BIOS ROMs don't play nice with other extension cards
>>> you
>>> might have on a busy system. You might want to disable them and 
leave
>>> the disk initialization to FreeBSD.
>>
>> How does one disable the BIOS ROMs on expansion cards?  Is this
>> specific to the AOC-SAT2-MV8, or can you do this on the mainboard?
>> Sounds like the sort of thing they would hide in the mainboard BIOS
>> somewhere.  I have a couple of JMB363 cards that I think would work
>> better without the BIOS ROMs.  Unfortunately I have never run across
>> any sort of "turn off expansion card BIOS ROM" option.
>
> Yes, you should be able to disable this from the mainboard by saying 
you
> don't want to use the Option ROM on Slot #X.

Took the machine down and waded through the BIOS menus.
The Phoenix AwardBIOS does not appear to have this feature.  :-(
Thanks anyway.