Second optical drive not showing up in Windows

[Project Alice]

HI all, another 2008 mac pro issue lol
So I'm dual-booting windows 10 x64, and Mac OS X 10.12.6.
I've just recently install an SSD and a bluedrive, using the 2 "hidden" on board sata ports. Everything works fine except for some odd reason, windows cannot detect the bluray drive. (The SSD is HFS+ so unreadable by windows anyways).
I'm aware bootcamp doesn't support windows booting off of those 2 ports but I didn't think that would effect using one of them.

Unreleated rant: the fact apple used IDE in a 2008 computer is absolutely asinine. IDE was obsolete in 2005 when you built the PowerMac G5, cmon apple!

 

[Cactusface]

HI all, another 2008 mac pro issue lol
So I'm dual-booting windows 10 x64, and Mac OS X 10.12.6.
I've just recently install an SSD and a bluedrive, using the 2 "hidden" on board sata ports. Everything works fine except for some odd reason, windows cannot detect the bluray drive. (The SSD is HFS+ so unreadable by windows anyways).
I'm aware bootcamp doesn't support windows booting off of those 2 ports but I didn't think that would effect using one of them.

Unreleated rant: the fact apple used IDE in a 2008 computer is absolutely asinine. IDE was obsolete in 2005 when you built the PowerMac G5, cmon apple!

[doublepost=1505145372][/doublepost]Hi,
Yes I have this problem with dual booting windows. Windows never sees these 2 extra! SATA connections, strange as Mac OS does. So I can't use one of these for my Windows drive. I too use an SSD.
Regards

Mel.

 

[AidenShaw]

HI all, another 2008 mac pro issue lol
So I'm dual-booting windows 10 x64, and Mac OS X 10.12.6.
I've just recently install an SSD and a bluedrive, using the 2 "hidden" on board sata ports. Everything works fine except for some odd reason, windows cannot detect the bluray drive. (The SSD is HFS+ so unreadable by windows anyways).
I'm aware bootcamp doesn't support windows booting off of those 2 ports but I didn't think that would effect using one of them.

Unreleated rant: the fact apple used IDE in a 2008 computer is absolutely asinine. IDE was obsolete in 2005 when you built the PowerMac G5, cmon apple!

Check the Windows device manager (type devmgmt.msc in a command window). See if there are unknown devices under storage or ide. (It should show a yellow triangle sign with an exclamation point and expand any devices with issues.)

If those devices are on a different controller, you may need to download the driver for the controller.