Two questions re: X58 Eclipse SLI

Hi all -
two questions regarding my (admittedly older) X58 Eclipse SLI:
1.) When I built the system, I had two IDE DVD devices: one reader and one burner.  I've since replaced the burner with a SATA burner but now I can't get Vista 64 to recognize the reader.  I have the reader setup as 'Master' on the IDE bus and it does get identified when booting the system.  Vista won't see it, though, even with the JMicron drivers installed.
2.) When I bought the board, I also bought an OCZ 1600 DDR3 kit (OCZ model# OCZ3P1600LV6GK).  I FINALLY got the RAM stable at 1333MHz, but I've considered adding more RAM to the system.  Am I likely to experience issues if all the RAM is not matched - especially considering I've had to customize the RAM voltage and timings?
any suggestions here would be greatly appreciated!
Mike

Quote from: PirateDog on 20-April-11, 06:31:10
It may be possibe that a firmware update is available from the device manufacturer that will make the drive compatible with Vista?
Possible, however I doubt that's the issue considering that the drive functioned normally prior to the removal of the 2nd (SLAVE) drive.  To clarify, when both drives were attached to the PATA controller everything worked fine.  When I went to a single drive, the OS no longer recognizes the MASTER device.

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