K9N2 Diamond sata drives

I don't know if my problem is related to the original poster, but it's close...
I have the K9N2 Diamond board as well, and no matter which of my drives (several different HDs and Optical Drives) I plug into ports 5 and 6, nothing is recognized by BIOS or my Windows Vista Ult. x86 install.
Part of my confusion is that it doesn't seem that ports 5 and 6 are even mentioned in BIOS.  The only progress I made is when I changed the Integrated Peripherals  > RAID Mode option to AHCI, I get an after POST display similar to when you have a PCI controller, but it doesn't detect any drives.  I have no idea if this is talking about ports 5&6, or possibly the rear eSATA ports though.
All drives in question work fine when plugged into ports 1-4.
Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks!

Sata ports 5-6 are supported only in AHCI mode. {Check the manual}
http://global.msi.eu/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=1&prod_no=1438
- SATA II 1~4 support RAID 0/ 1/ 0+1 /5 or JBOD mode by NVIDIA® nForce 780a SLI
- SATA II 5~6 only support AHCI Mode
- 2 eSATA ports support RAID 0/ 1 mode by JMicron JMB363

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