HD identification reads jibrish and dosn't show up in My Computer

Hello again everyone, I have a problem with my hard drive setup and I can not find a reference to this particular situation. I have a 74 gig raptor sata drive as my system C: and my primary IDE ribbon goes to two slide in hard drive trays. My secondary IDE ribbon goes to a zip drive and to my CD drive.
When I place a hard drive in a tray it sometimes shows up in My Computer and sometimes it won't. If I go to add new hardware and search, it will ask if I have already installed the device. I scroll down the list and it will show up as jibbrish. A Maxtor shows up as Mahor +//6*#6^^ and stuff like that. I thought I had a bad hard drive so I took it back to the store, ( thank God for extended warranties;) They gave me a new Maxtor 160 gig hard drive and When I put it in the tray I got the same jibbrish and the installation software wouldn't recognise it. I'm thinking it may have to do with my hardware configuration and the master/slave settings. I had hoped to use the trays for storage because I do a lot of video work but I have never been able to get the setup to work right. Any configuration suggestions would be very welcomed thank you very much. I built this machine and it is an ECS P4M800PRO-M
with an Intel E6300 core 2 duo with 2 gigs of DDR2 RAM. I run Windows XP SP2. Thank You Very Much!
SYA. Cmdr Chill

 

Hello All! I have been able to solve my own problem and I figure you should know so you don't waste advice on me when you could be helping someone else. I am really sorry if I wasted anyones time. Well here is the way I fixed it if anyones interested. Instead of putting two hard drives on one ribbon cable I placed one slide in tray in the master spot and the CD drive at the slave spot, making sure to set the jumpers respectivly. I then placed another slide in tray at the master spot on the other ribbon cable and my ZIP drive in the slave spot taking care with the jumpers again. I now use SATA 1 as my system c: and SATA 2 as storage. The two slide in trays can now be used as additional storage. I am currently looking in to RAID setups but for now this works fine. Thank you all until next time, SYA
Cmdr Chill