K9A2 Platinum SB600 RAID & SATA DVD

Quick question for you.
I have the K9A2 Platinum (V1) MS-7376 board.
Original setup has 2 drives on SATA ports 1/2 in a RAID 1/Mirror config - plus an additional HDD and DVD-Writer on PATA (Cable Select).
The original DVD-Writer has given it's all, and was removed and "buried with honor".
I'm replacing with a BluRAY SATA.
From what I've read, I can't fire up the PROMISE Controller (Ports 5/6) because that will conflict with the SB600 Raid.
I don't believe I can add the BluRAY to one of the SB600 ports (3/4) because it's expecting to add it to a RAID array....is that correct ??
If that is correct, it would appear that my only option is to backup everything, put the hard drives on the PROMISE controller in RAID (or just use software/OS raid), and set the SB600 to AHCI - and probably reinstall the OS from scratch.
Comments/confirmation greatly appreciated.

Unfortunately it does not appear to be as simple as plugging it in to one of the existing ports. I've tried both 3 and 4 (since the 2 hard drives are on 1 and 2).
OS is Vista Ultimate 64.
To make sure there is nothing else is at fault, I updated to BIOS last night to the latest. I also updated drivers. Unfortunately, using the ATI Catalyst Install Manager, I don't see a way to update the SB drivers.
The BIOS recognizes the BD and reports it correctly. In the RAID BIOS it is also visible. VISTA boots successfully, and runs fine (I'm using it while typing this). Completely stable as it always was. Until you put any kind of disk in the BD drive. After it senses the presence of the disk, the system immediately blue screens with a 'driver irql not less or equal' showing the culprit code being in ahcix64s.sys - the SB ahci raid driver.
PSU = Corsair HX620
MB = K9A2 Platinum V1 (MS-7376)
CPU = Phenom 9550 Agena AM2+ Quad Core
Memory = 2 x 2GB OCZ Reaper PC2 8500 (DDR2 Dual Channel Kit)
2 x Seagate Barracuda 500GB SataII in Raid 1 Mirror on SB600
Vista Ultimate 64 fully up to date with all updates.
I can see the AHCIx64s.sys on the latest driver package is more recent than what's installed, but can't find a way to install it (as described above).
Any ideas greatly appreciated.

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    I connected both raptors to the PROMISE controller and I get the same thing FUNCTIONAL, then it stops!
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    msi K9A2 platinum
    amd 4200 duel core socket am2
    1gig of patriot 667 ram 512x2
    ati x1900gt video card
    Samsung spin point 160gb sata drive x2 *praying to god to put it in raid 0 once again*
    THX FOR READING :D

    Quote from: asd9000 on 17-May-08, 08:51:19
    did all those settings. and have the newest and the disk version of the drivers.
    do u guys really think that it not being able to find the driver file a power issue? either way i ll do anything at this point i rewired some stuff where the video card has its own rail and the hard drives have theirs with the cd-rom drive. took out my fan controler and really power hungry after market video card fan replaced with an old 60mm fan.
    Error once again... ??? DAMN FTT3.inf file
    edited: cause i sounded like an angry a$$hole with that first line :P
    Stop swearing here! It's NOT allowed.
    As for the floppy, goto the command prompt of a Windows machine, then type "format a:" and let the floppy format, if your floppy shows any error throw it away and try another.
    It's not uncommon floppies fail.

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