Well, after spending most of the day trying to get this worked out, I decided to put things back the way they were. I could not get the BIOS update to work for the card. Read all the info. on how to do it, & I guess at this point I am suffering from info. overload, because whatever I tried, it just wouldn't work!
BIOS update, even the driver file update I couldn't get to work. So to make it easy, I just put the pata drives back on mobo IDE1, & the (2) 1655's on the controller card. I ripped a couple of movies & burned one, & all seems to be working ok. Maybe if I feel like taking on a challenge in the future, I may tackle this again at some point.
Thanks to all for the assistance!
regards, katzz