Setting up DVD drives on single IDE channels

The k9n only has a single IDE channel, but my dvd drive will only seem to work when I have it set as the Primary Master. Does this particularly matter ?

Uthred,
Run your DVD Drive as Master on the IDE Cable. If you have an IDE Hard Drive you also want to run on there, try it as slave. (I am guessing it would be a backup HD since you have all the SATA HDs listed in your Sig.)
If the DVD Drive does not like the Slave HD, I would recommend buying a cheap USB 2.0 External Drive Enclosure and putting your backup IDE HD in there and plug it in to a USB Port.
It is a solution.
Take Care,
Richard

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Hard drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB 32MB Cache (SATA)
Optical drive: LG GSA-H55L (IDE only) Firmware version 1.02
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Chipset: Intel P35/G33/G31 (Rev. A2)
Southbridge: Intel 82801IB (ICH9)
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I already tried to uninstall every channel from the device manager but all would still be the same after reboot, dvd drive on primary, hard drive on secondary.
Current ide mode in BIOS is set to AHCI+IDE mode, DMA modes are fine (UDMA4 for dvd, UDMA5 for hard drive), boot sequence (1st=HD, 2nd=DVD, 3rd=Floppy drive)
Tried switching to IDE mode only in BIOS but would not detect the optical drive. Never tried RAID+IDE mode since I only have a single hard drive.
I'm not sure but if I try to update the firmware, it might instead try to update the hard drive's firmware instead of the optical drive and make the hard drive unusable.
I would like to know if anybody with this same situation was able to successfully update the optical drive's firmware or is there some way to place the optical drive on the secondary ide channel and the hard drive on primary for me to follow and replicate the process.
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