Difficulties getting EIDE controller card and HD working on E520

Can anyone help please?

 

I've just bought an E520 with 1 HD and 2 optical drives installed.  I've spent the last few days educating myself about why I can't just put my old EIDE HD straight into the machine as a 2nd hard disk...

 

After trying an EIDE->SATA converter (apparently notoriously unreliable) I bought a PCI EIDE controller card, as suggested on several threads here.

 

That installed fine, (it's an ITE IT8211 ATA/ATAPI Controller) and after installing drivers, shows up on Device Manager.

 

Connected the old HD but Windows isn't detecting it.

 

On boot, I'm getting a "please wait for IDE scan" message which takes a few seconds longer, then it looks like it picks up my old hard disk, but the screen is so quick I can't read what it says..

 

I can't find any settings in the (Dell) BIOS that might affect it...

 

I'm a bit concerned about the whole RAID business - it seems the 1st HD is set as RAID ON, and the Intel Matrix Storage Console is only picking up one hard disk as well - might this be the problem??

 

I've checked that the jumper is set to Master, and double-checked the cables.   On other thing - I'm taking the power off the lead feeding the two optical drives...there's a spare 'old-style' HD power lead I've used but I'm not 100% convinced it's working - any way to check?

 

Thanks in advance!!