[9fans] installation on SATYA disk failed

[<cej@gli.cas.cz>]

Hi, folks!

I have bought a WDC WD1002FBYS-01A6B0 SATA II disk to install a Plan 9 on it. However , my CD/DVD drive is not SATA, but a rather old one hanging on an IDE cable (primary master). Moreover, there is only one IDE slot on the motherboard, thus I cannot make the CD to be 'secondary master'. Trying to boot from CD did not work any combination of sdXX!cdboot!9pcflop.gz Thus, I made a small DOS-formatted FAT16 partition on the SATA disk, copied files from installation floppy on it, and tried to boot from it:
boot from: bios0!9pcflop.gz

This is what I get:

PBS1...
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
ELCR:CCL8
pcirouting: South bridge 8086, 2810 not found
islba: drive 0x80 extensions version 48.0 cx 0x5
exgetsize: drive 0x80 info flags 0x0
bios0: drive 0x80: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes, type 3
reading drive 0x80 offset 0 into seg: off 0x6000000...biosdiskcall: int 13 op 042 drive 0x80 failed, ah error code 0x80
sectread: bios failed to read 512@sector 0 of 0x80
bios0!9fat does not contain a FAT file system

This seems to me like SATA disk is unreadable.

So, I added a second (slave) HD on IDE0, with a small FAT partition, etc., and booted:
sdB0!dos!9pcflop.gz
and voila, installer runs, but only up to the '[partdisk]: no disk devices were found on your system. The installation process cannot continue.'

I consulted the 9fans archives getting a hint that the SATA driver must be built in the 9pcflop.gz Now I am lost so I would be grateful for any advice.

Thanks, regards,

++pac.