2 of the 4 SATA ports do not work...

Dell Dimension 531 s, AMD Opteron, 2 GB of RAM.

Aim:  I would like to add a 2nd HD

Result:  I have two HDs and CD player, so that's a total of 3 SATA devices.  Everything I plug SATA0 and SATA1 work very well, but anything connected to SATA2 and SATA3 do not work.  They are devices checked (I plug HD SATA0 and it appears in the BIOS very well, but I plug it on SATA2 and it's invisible.)

Question: SATA2 and SATA3 locked up 1.5gbit, or they are disabled in some way?  I am at a loss.  The BIOS has no parameter like you used to see on ports IDE; I can't turn this is a read only field - if it is detected, it is.    What I am doing wrong?  If I see 4 ports on the motherboard, why I can't use all four?


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