K9N2 Diamond and Sata ports 5&6

This is on a K9N2 Diamond MOBO
So I installed 2 SSD drives in my computer.  I also have a Blu-Ray drive and 2 HDDs.  I've installed the SSDs to SATA ports 1&2 and my HDDs to 3&4.  My Blu-Ray drive is on SATA port 5.  In this configuration the Blu-Ray drive doesn't show up.  If I swap it with one of the HDDs, My 2 SSDs, Blu-Ray and one HDD show up, but the second HDD does not.
How can I get all of the components to show, or are SATA ports 5&6 there just to say you have them?  Thank you in advance.

Think I read this FAQ before, but it was too long and complicated to my eyes:
The Southbridge of this motherboard (ICH6)could support 1 IDE channel and 4SATA interface. There are three items about SATA devices settings in BIOS Setup (Integrated peripherals->SATA Devices Configuration):
a.Combined: The mode is a traditional mode which contains 2 IDE channel combined by one IDE channel and 2 SATA interface, and could connect 4 devices. If you choose this item, you could get other two items: PATA IDE Mode & SATA IDE Mode, PATA IDE Mode is used to set IDE as primary/secondary channel, and the SATA as secondary/primary channel automatically. It’s mentioned that if you choose PATA as the primary channel, SATA3&SATA4 will be as secondary, if you set PATA as secondary channel, SATA1&SATA2 will be used as primary channel. If you choose combined mode, you’ll get 2 IDE channels in Standard CMOS Features:
Primary IDE Master
Primary IDE Slave
Secondary IDE Master
Secondary IDE Slave
b.Enhanced: Choose this mode, you could use 1 PATA and 4 SATA, which could connect 6 devices, and you’ll get 4 IDE channels in Standard CMOS Features:
Primary IDE Master
Primary IDE Slave
Secondary IDE Master
Secondary IDE Slave
Third IDE Master
Third IDE Slave
Fourth IDE Master
Fourth IDE Slave
Indeed we could just use 3 channels of them, (the secondary channel has canceled according to the Intel spec), the primary channel is the IDE channel, the third and the forth channel are bridged by SATA.
c.SATA: It’s the mode shield the IDE, and just use the 4 SATA. Choose this mode, in Standard CMOS Feature, you’ll get 2 IDE channels:
Primary IDE Master
Primary IDE Slave
Secondary IDE Master
Secondary IDE Slave

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