IDE drives not recognized with SATA as boot drive

Greetings All,
I have a new 865PE Neo2-P that has a 120 Gig SATA drive as its main boot drive. It's loaded with WinXP Home. I'm trying to add two IDE hard drives from my previous system to the on-board controller, and it simply refuses to recognize them at all.
I've read the FAQ, the manual, previous posts, etc., and I've tried the different BIOS settings suggested in the forum, and nothing seems to work. The only thing I haven't been able to do as posted was to "set my SATA drive as the boot drive". The boot selections in the BIOS only list floppy, IDE-0, and some boot manager. Not sure if the boot manager was installed by my local PC assembler or not.
The PC shipped with the BIOS settings MSI recommends on page 3-22 and 3-23 for users wanting to use both SATA and IDE devices. That is to say:
Legacy Mode
P-ATA only
SATA Keep Yes
PATA Channel Both
SATA Ports P0-3rd/P1-4th
Changing the BIOS settings only seems to lose the DVD/CD drives, and the system wants to boot off of the IDE's rather than boot from the SATA.
What the ??!! is going on here? Why is it so difficult to get this MB to recognize IDE devices? I've never had this much difficulty before with any MB's, and I'm getting very frustrated.
What should I do next?

OK, I checked my notes. I did try these two BIOS settings without it working:
ATA On CHip Operate Mode: Native
ATA Config: SATA only
PATA Keep Enabled: Yes
PATA Channel Selection: Both
Set SATA as RAID: No(Only available in FIS2R/FISR versions only)
or
ATA On CHip Operate Mode: Native
ATA Config: PATA only
SATA Keep Enabled: Yes
Set SATA as RAID: No(Only available in FIS2R/FISR versions only)
Now, tonight I decided to try a different cable just to eliminate that. What I discovered is that the IDE1 socket is "out of spec". There are no bent pins, but the rightmost three columns of pins are larger than the others, too large for any IDE cable, and consequently it doesn't fit snugly in the socket!! (I tried plugging the MSI supplied cable from the DVD drive into that socket as well and it wouldn't fit.) I never noticed this before as I was pressing the cable in the socket as far as it would go.
I will talk to my local manufacturer to see about getting a replacement board. It's clearly messed up. Thank you MSI for the swell quality control.
Derek

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