Both are Pata, I have tried them on the same cable and different cables/ ide ports, also replaced the cables. uninstalling as well as removing all drives, them rebooting, shut down then reinstall only a single drive...no luck.
After format and reinstall I tried the original software, Powerdvd. Also tried Nero burning rom, just to see if it would even ID a dvd, no luck. I dont have the specific file names for the drivers here, I am at work and we are speaking of my home system. The drives are identified properly in "My Computer", at least to the point that it knows they are dvd and dvdrw respectively. I will post the specific driver names this afternoon when I get home. I did notice once I place a dvd in either drive the drive name changes from dvd/ or dvdrw to cd, and then if I go to explore the drive it says "please insert disk in drive x:"