975X PowerUp--setting up PATA RAID0 and 2 optical drives (Problem Solved)

Question

Hi, all.  Revamping my existing system extensively and need some help. 
I have 2 optical drives and 2 hard drives.  I want to have the optical drives set up as master/slave on one IDE cable and the 2 hard drives set up as a RAID array on a second IDE cable.  I did it on my old mobo but is this possible with the 975X Platinum PowerUp? 
The manual says that IDE1 can support a master and slave, but that IDE2 only supports a master.  However, I know this to be false because IDE2 is the slot that the JMicron RAID controller governs.  I can manage to set up a RAID0 array with both HDDs master/slaved and plugged into IDE2.  However, the optical drives in IDE1 are not recognized if I do this.  I can get the system to recognize the optical drives if I plug them into IDE2...  They work, but are incorrectly recognized by the JMicron portion of system post as a RAID array.  I can't install Windows on the RAID array because so far the system won't access the optical drives without them being on IDE2--which I need for JMicron to control the RAID array.  You can see how this would cause trouble.    Is there some way that I can go into the BIOS and tell the system that IDE1 is the optical drives?
I have looked in the manual and on websites.  Nobody seems to have the same problem.  I know that I am a bit behind the times by not having a CD-RW/DVD-RW combo drive, but even having only the one device would not solve the problem of devices on IDE1 not being recognized by the system.  This sounds like it should be possible to set up correctly, but because of the unfamiliarity of the motherboard and the complexity of the BIOS in relation to my last one, I know I am not doing something right.  I hope I've made the situation clear enough to make sense to other people!
Any suggestions? 

Answer 1

Since it is a fresh install, the only drivers that are installed are the ones that came on the Windows XP SP2 CD and the JMicron RAID drivers that I slipstreamed in.  However, the directory structure and instructions for use weren't very clear in the .zip file that the RAID drivers came in.  It says:
"For floppy install:
Please copy all the directories and files in the "floppy" folder to the root directory of a floppy disk to create a pre-install disk for Win2K/WinXP/Win2003/WinXP 64bits/Win2003 64bits.
For example,
A:\amd64
\x32
txtsetup.oem"
Well, my power supply does not have a connector for a floppy drive, which is why I was installing the RAID drivers with a slipstreamed XP CD.  However, in the actual .zip file, there is no "floppy" folder!  There are 4 subdirectories:  Application, Driver, Floppy32 and Floppy64.  The Driver directory has 2 subdirectories:  amd64 and x32.  I didn't understand whether I was supposed to use the files in the Driver/x32 folder, or the ones in the Floppy32 folder. 
I ended up slipstreaming the files from the Floppy32 folder because it seemed to make the most sense according to the instructions.  However, I noticed both in nLite and when Windows was actually preparing setup that multiple RAID drivers were found in and loaded from this directory, whereas in the Driver/x32 folder, nLite detected only one set of RAID drivers.  Did I use the wrong directory to get the JMicron RAID drivers when I made the slipstreamed XP CD?  Or do you think there is a different problem?