MSI K7T266 Pro2-RU and 200GB HDD

Since 2001 I have used my computer builded with MSI K7T266 Pro2-RU ( 6380)  mainboard.
A week ago I bought a new Samsung's hard disk (SP2014N) with 200 GB capacity. Before connection of the new disk to my computer, I upgraded BIOS to the newest one, downloaded from MSI Web site.
The new disk is connected as master to IDE-0 interface and to the second IDE is connected my old 40 GB Seagate (as master) and DVD recorder NEC ND-3520 (as slave). The BIOS has detected the new disk as Auto, the old one as User type (47), the DVD recorder as CD and everything looks right, but there is a problem: I can not connect any drive as slave on Primary IDE channel. The BIOS does not recognize the HDD or CD/DVD connected to slave on Primary channel.
Can you help me, please?

To Osnavi's questions: yes, yes, yes, yes.
To DaveR: my both optical drives worked as slave together with my old Seagate HDD (40 GB) and everything was fine.
I don't like to connect both hard drives on the same channel, because I'm working with huge video files and I need some speed of independent HDDs.

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