I don't see why it wouldn't work. as long as the drive is single and not part of an array and the hba is working properly, it could be that the hba is taking priority in boot sequence. try this though if applicable; Check bios boot sequence, physically remove all other drives that are not the os and try to boot into that first. Make sure that its the first bootable device in bios. I believe i remember seeing that error when rebuilding my raid 0 and still having two sata storage drives attached. I temporarily removed them from my hot swap bays and then the os raid booted fine, i reattached the storage drives and everything worked fine there after. That could have been luck, but i do remember seeing that error and that ended up working for me. You could also get a sata to usb adapter and transfer data that way if this does not work. hope some of that helps!
 
Interestingly im also having issues with the the same hba.  I'm very curious as to how you got your IBM M1015 to work on an x58 mobo? I have an evga x58 sli and the card (9220-8i) does not show any signs in post, and in windows it has a code 10 error the device cannot start.