MSI X52P combo drive

I wanted a new combo drive for the MEGA 180 and though id play safe and get one made by MSI to be sure its compatible -> http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/optical_devices/dvs/pro_dvs_detail.php?UID=563
With this drive you get a few different coloured front panels or as MSI call them "active panels" one silver, one black and one white. Great i thought i'll put the black one on since most of the MEGA 180 is black.... so 20 min later everything installed and put back together. Then i click eject and "CRUNCH" the disk tray end panel doesnt fit through the front opening in the MEGA 180....which is dissapointing since its an MSI drive!!!!......and means another 20 min taking the thing to bits and then having to cut a few mm off the bottom of the black panel and putting it together again.
Once installed the drive works fine...but to work at the highest speed (x52 rather than x48) you need to press a button on the front of the drive.....which isnt easy on a MEGA PC.
Im sure a lot of people want a combo drive for their MEGA PC's and MSI really could have done a bit more testing here to ensure that all there products are compatible.
Standard MEGA 180
AthlonXP 2800+ Barton
BIOS out of the box
Geil 1 x 512MB DDR PC3200 400MHz
MSI X52P combo drive
Master - Maxtor 7200rpm 80GB (win XP without SP1)
Given up on media centre and using other software instead

yep ..doesn't always work the way you think..
would have been more exciting if the drive was too long and hit a capacitor on the mobo or something like that ....that happend to me once

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After investigating, the drive reads discs perfectly using my old Win98 boot disk which uses a different ATAPI driver (the drive flew through a dir *.* /s on the bundled 600MB odd Nero CD in seconds) and also works perfectly in Safe Mode.
As it worked perfectly in Safe Mode I took that opportunity to install Nero. I then rebooted and discovered that I can use the drive to burn a CD with Nero in normal mode (which reads perfectly in another drive) but again in normal mode won't read any discs including the one I burnt. I'm just trying to remember what the differences between Normal and Safe Mode are. They both use the same driver but doesn't SM use Real Mode Drivers?
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Every combination of IDE channel / master slave setup possible.
Updating the firmware, it's now the 1.40 version.
Checking this forum, seems other people have had similar problems.
A bucket load of things that perhaps only mad people would try.
For the record, there are no device conflicts and AMIBIOS reports it as VER 1.40 ATAPI COMBO52XMAX on boot up. Note, I have been building / tinkering / playing with PC's practically all my life but this is really the first time that I have been stumped with a hardware problem.
Any help / suggestions / ideas would be greatly appreciated. I know the drive works perfectly, just not in normal mode

AHA!
Getting somewhere.
Device Manager - IDE ATA/ATAPI - Secondary IDE Channel - Properties - Advanced Settings
Changing Transfer Mode from 'DMA If Available' to 'PIO Only' caused the drive to immediately spring into action and read discs of all types. However, I'm not happy with that so will fiddle further. PIO mode is processor intensive whereas DMA mode uses the disk controller to transfer data to memory without lugging the proc.
So without looking I am guessing that the difference between Safe Mode and Normal Mode is that Normal Mode tries to use DMA first whereas Safe Mode just uses PIO to be safe. My hard drives are happy chugging along in DMA mode so I'm sure the X52P should too.
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