BIOS Not Recognizing DVD Burner

[noconw]

I have recently been making updates to my computer and I have run into a problem. A few weeks ago I installed a new SATA HD and after install my DVD burner was not being recognized. My friend helped me out with changing some cables around and the problem was fixed. My regular HD and my DVD burner are hooked up using the red cables and my SATA HD obviously via SATA cables. The latest problem occured when I bought a new, second DVD burner and tried to install it. BIOS will not recognize it. I was assuming the drive would be recognized on the Secondary IDE channel as the slave since my SATA HD is the master on the secondary channel. I set the pins on the new burner to slave but still nothing. My friend made some changes to the BIOS configuration and we finally go the BIOS to recognize the new burner but then it would not recogonize my primary HD. We were able to get all sorts of configurations in BIOS but only up to 3 components would show up at atime, we could never get all 4 (2HD, 2Burners) to be recognized. Can anybody help?

Intel 4 2GHz
768MB PC 3200
MSI Socket 478 Platinum Edition Mobo
Seagate 30G ATA
Hitachi 160G SATA
Samsung DVD Burner
GE Force 4600
Windows XP

 

[Bozo Galora]

I cant make out what you are saying here.
You connected the regular IDE with the "red cables".
SATA cables are red with black connectors, not the IDE

And you seem to imply you are running a Hitachi SATA drive on the secondary IDE port as master, and you are trying to slave the IDE DVD to the SATA HDD on the IDE channel??

This may be a silly question, but why dont you put the SATA on the SATA port?
But like I said I cant get a handle on whats going on here - did you use an adaptor?

You didnt give the MSI mobo model either, so we dont know what chipset