SATA Drives Optical and HD

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My motherboard has four (4) sata ports/connectors and one (1) ide
conector. I can populate 3 of the 4 sata port with 2 HD's and 1
optical drive and the motherboard bios sees all three. I can also use
the ide connector for another optical drive and it is recognized if I
enable the jmicron driver in the bios. I have all of this installed on
my computer.

Running XP Pro already installed. When I log on to XP and go to "My
Computer" the main HD show up and depending on how I have the sata
ports configured the 2nd HD will show but the sata optical will not or
the optical will show and the and the 2nd HD will not. If I enable
the jmicron driver the ide optical will show. Sata ports in use are
1-3 and 4 is not in use.

How can I get XP to recognize all three and possibly all 4 sata ports,
right now it's recognizing only 2 ports. Any suggestions
recommendations would be appreciated.
 
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