[915 Series] 915p Neo2 HDD/Optical Drive Setup

I have a system as stated in signature with the two hard drives on a single cable and both set for Cable Select.  I also have two optical drives on a single cable both set for Cable Select.  When HDD cable is in IDE1 (blue connector) and CD-ROM cable is in IDE2, WinXP will run and recognize all four drives.  However, I cannot boot from a CD.  If I reverse the cables the CD will load, but will tell me I have no HDD.
Initially, to load XP I had one CD-ROM in cable position master and an HDD in cable position slave, other wise I got a message "no system found" or "Win could not find a HDD".
I have reviewed several posts and have not been able to find a solution.  Everything works fine when in normal operation (booting from HDD) but when booting from proprietary softwhere on CD which can't be loaded on an HDD & must be loaded from the CD, I have to open the machine and swap cables and both I and my cable connectors are getting tired of this approach.
The BIOS tells me that I am using VIA VT6410 Raid BIOS Ver. 4.50 and with the HDD cable connected to IDE2 it lists the two drives as None Raid Primary Master & Slave.

Best to have your boot HDD as master on primary IDE with second HDD as slave on Primary IDE.  Put burner as master on secondary IDE with cdr as slave to it. 
Cable select is known to give problems in a lot of instances.  Best to use master/slave jumper settings.

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