SATA HDD BEING FOUND AS SLAVE ONLY?

Hello all!  My new Maxtor SATA drive is currently being found on my new Neo2-LS motherboard as a slave drive! Why is this?  No matter what I do, it is either being found as a slave drive.  Or if I change the IDE options, not at all.  It is plugged into the SATA-1 slot.  The only other drive I have hooked up to this brand new system (no OS yet) is a CD-RW drive on the IDE2 (white slot) as secondary master.  Any advice?  It's driving me NUTS!
How can I finally make my SATA HDD the primary master?  Any reply would be VERY much appreciated.  Thanks!
-Transverz
http://www.INVIDonline.com

Okay, so I went to BIOS and went to ON-CHIP IDE SETTINGS (what I take it you mean by "ide settings").  Here are my settings (that aren't greyed out by default):
ATA CONFIG: P-ATA + S-ATA
COMBINED MODE: S-ATA 1ST CHANNEL
S-ATA PORTS DEF: P0-SLAVE/P1-MASTER
Now, I see that the S-ATA PORT DEFINITION has the P0 at SLAVE but when I put it the other way, IT DISAPPEARS.  No matter what, even if I take OUT the CD-RW drive, and I change around the ON-CHIP IDE SETTINGS, I can finally make the drive a master, BUT ONLY ON THE SECONDARY SETTING!
No matter what I do, it seems as though something keeps pushing the S-ATA HDD to be either PRIMARY SLAVE when it's supposed to be PRIMARY MASTER or pushes it to the SECONDARY MASTER when it's supposed to be PRIMARY MASTER.  Someone please help!  I would very much appreciate it!  Thanks!
-Transverz

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