If the computer boots up and starts it operating system (i presume it's Windows?), then yes it is finding your primary and secondary ports, but you may still be not seeing your CD / DVD drive in your file explorer or in My Computer.
This is a fault relating to a thing known as High and Low filters - it's an old problem in Windows where for no reason at all your CD drive can vanish.
Search the internet for a patch to repair high and low filters, it will be a very small registry entry file that you are looking for.
Once you've ran that, restart the computer and 95% of the time the drive will have reappeared again.
If not, start by checking that you can actually eject the CD drawer using its open/close button, and if you have a disc in the drive can you hear it spin ? If not, it may be a lose power cable at the rear of the drive, or a faulty power supply just affecting that drive.
SOURCE: Secondary IDE not working
i have same problem with my intel d845gvsr and dont know how to fix it device manager shows secondry ide channel working properly but bios dosent detect any thing attached to it
SOURCE: IDE ports in asus m2npv-vm & m2n-mx motherboards
hi, i have a couple of those boards. they have 2 ide ports on them and 4 serial ports. if youu do get the m2npv-vm, one thing that is weird about it, one faces up from the board and the other lays flat off the edge. also the ports are right next to each other and the polarity (which side you put the ribbon cable stripe on) is opposite each other. so if you don't use a keyed ribbon cable you might hook them up wrong.
SOURCE: Primary ide slave no detedted secondary ide
you need to verify the jumper settings on the devices that are connected through the IDE flat cable.
picture: http://support.euro.dell.com/support/edocs/storage/P120718/drijump01.gif
set the jumpers in such a way, that on one flat cable there is both a master device and a slave device. if you're not sure what to choose as master, you can use the CS (cable select) setting on both devices to let the system board choose which one will be master and which on will be slave.
keep us posted on any evolution if you will...
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