I have abit AB9 (non PRO) with ICH8 (you have ICH8R), and I don't have to pass 'irqpoll' kernel parameter to boot properly. I have a SATA hdd attached to the mobo (not the JMicron ports), and an ATA DVD-RW and a hdd to the PATA provided by JMicron (set to IDE mode in the bios).
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