Are you concerned about your data? Cause a LiveCD of just about any flavor of Linux will get you in and allow you to pull your data off.
No installing of anything, just pop the CD in and it will load into memory, and connect to your attached hard drives and even your network.
It’s a beautiful thang...:O)
BTW, are you saying you have an add on ATA133 card?
Yes, and it is almost as old as the computer. I built it in an Antec case, with an Asus 2.4GHz P4 mobo. The ATA133 card uses Silicon Image chips, and has worked great all these years.
But this morning, after I copied all the data from D: to E:, I got another Write Failed warnings, and the file it reported was on E:. Then later, another warning reporting on a system file, which would have been on C:, which is living on the nobo’s IDE controller..
So, I might be having a mobo meltdown. I am greatly concerned.