Trouble recognizing the CDRW/DVD drive

ok so i just picked up an MSI K8T Neo2 mobo for my 3500+ (939 socket) and for some reason it refuses to recognize any IDE CD drive i put in there. Aside from errors regarding it not having something to boot from (the boot menu wouldn't let me pick the drive) it also spits out this error: Sec Master Drive - ATAPI Incompatible. I know the drive is ATAPI compatibable, it's a brand new Lite-on SOHC-5232K (52x32x52x16x) CDRW/DVD drive. I connected it to the second IDE plug and set the drive to master, and I know the drive is getting power because when the IDE cable isn't plugged in it will open and close when i hit the button. Any idea what's wrong or suggestions on how i could fix this?

I've tried setting the bios to regognize it as CD/DVD and to auto, i've tried different cables, different drives, and still no luck. Also, the CD drive is the only one hooked up to the cable, and it's at the end. I tried putting it at the middle, and again, no luck. I've also fiddled with the jumper settings on the drive, and none of them seem to work. I thought of calling geeksquad but thought that maybe i could find some help with you guys before calling them. I've put together numerous systems before, altough this is my first RAID 0 system... but this has never happenned to me.
thanks for takin the time to help me out tiresmoke.

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