Same would go for my acer aspire 9524WSMi, which has an intel 945GM chipset and 82801GBM / 82801GHM ICH controller supported according to intel.

Have tried the pack DP_MassStorage_wnt5_x86-32_706.7z and no go. XP setup finds no hard drives.
And of course, I would reaaaallly like to get rid of vista. Or at least dualboot.