Asus A7N8X Problem w/ Secondary IDE

I turned my computer on today and discovered that it no longer recognized my CD/DVD drives that are on the secondary IDE channel. I switched them and the hdd's that were on the primary channel and the computer then recognized the optical drives but not the hdd's. So it seems that I have a problem with the secondary channel. The only change that I have made in my bios over the last few days is that I disabled my floppy drive (I had to use the cable for something else). I didn't think that it was possible that that could have caused any problem but just in case I reenabled it (nothing happened) and then as a last resort I cleared CMOS (still no devices on secondary channel...) any suggestion? Should I just get a new board??
Thanks

Nope, it's not the cable (although I was hoping that was the problem) the cable works fine when it's hooked up to the primary channel. I'd rather buy a new cable than a new mobo

uh oh... hope his board is still under warranty!

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