Here is my problem and what I've done so far. Any help will be greatly
appreciated.

1. Removed my old hard drive.

2. Installed a promise SATA RAID card in my Dimension 8200, along with
two hard drives connected to it.

Secondary IDE cable connects to a DVD drive, and a DVD-RW drive. Both
work fine.

Primary IDE cable connects only to a zip drive, set as Master
(remember, original hard drive was removed).

In order to avoid the "press F1 to continue, F2 to enter setup"
message that I got after booting with this configuration, I had to go
to the bios and set the primary IDE channel (0 and 1) to OFF.

Now the system boots fine, but I don't see the Zip drive. My guess is
that since the bios sees the primary IDE as being off, and the hard
drives are on a SATA card, it does not see the Zip drive.

If I set the primary IDE to AUTO, I get the "press F1 to continue, F2
to enter setup" message - which I want to avoid.

Please help!

Many thanks