[G4] Acard AEC-6280M Boot

[shopdog at mac.com]

All:

I recently installed an Acard AEC-6280M IDE card in my G4 (AGP  
Graphics).

I'm having frequent issues with not being able to boot from drives  
connected to the card bus.  So much so that I have reverted to simply  
booting from a drive attached to the native bus where the Zip drive  
had been attached, and using the Acard-connected drives as storage.

If I try to boot from an Acard-connected drive, the drive will  
occasionally boot, but 9/10 times the system hangs right after the  
grey apple appears on the screen.  I have tried this with more than  
one drive, so it is not the drive, as far as I can tell.

Is this normal, or is the card bad, or is there something else that is  
wrong.

Thanks!

shopdog