Boot from SATA HDs? (865PE chipsets)

I was wondering if other makes of motherboards with non-RAID 865PE chipsets support a
"booting" SATA HD(to WinXP)? Especially if there is also a non-booting PATA HD in the
system on one of the standard IDE channels?

Would this be a BIOS issue or a limitation of the 865PE chipset (non-RAID)?

My board's support website has a statement in the FAQ section that says the DFI PS83-BL
rev.A does not support a "booting" SATA HD ........ That note was dated back in May 2003.
Since then however, they have released 4 BIOS updates for improving lots of other good
stuff, but based on my test last night, it looks like I'll have to wait still longer for a
BIOS update that gives me the ability to boot from a SATA HD (assuming the 865PE chipset,
etc supports that feature). The SATA I bought yesterday works fine as a logical non-booting
HD but will not boot if cloned from my current PATA booting drive (using Ghost 2003 in a
direct Disk-to-Disk cloning).

I need to start pushing DFI's tech support for another BIOS update depending on what
feedback I get here.

Thanks everybody ....... RR