Hello Peter,
While the IDE thing may be true, I have two Falcon030's, one with the CT60 and the other with the CT63 and both have ran just fine without the patches for quite some time. I ran my CT60'ed Falcon for 1.5 years without any of the patches recommended on Rodolphe's web page. Although I did do the modifications to the CT60 when those came along for the first run of CT60's. Both of my Falcon's have a EtherNEC and 20+inch IDE cable and also have SCSI drives connected and I have had no issues. Maybe I got the two best Falcon's in the world??? LOL.
Please note that he had MagXBOOt32 in the auto folder. This would imply that he is booting with Magic installed. SO yes he does need the patches described previously.