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Since it looks like the problem is located on the mainboard the controller might be broken, so there is probably not much you can do. One last thing you could check is to see if there is something behind the connector on the mainboard that could cause shorts. Sometimes there are excessive brass spacers, that were not removed before the board was put in. In cases with poor quality the board carrier might also be bent so the board is touching it directly. Since even the drives's name does not come up correctly, it could also be some pin not being connected properly. So also make sure that no pins in the connector are bent and thus left unconnected. If the connector is dirty, some rubbing alcohol might help.

If there are no such problems (or there was one but removing it does not fix your problem) you have three options to keep the otherwise working board.

• use a drive with another connector like S-ATA or maybe USB (assuming such conector is available)
• use a ATA/S-ATA bridge to connect your drive to a S-ATA port on your mainboard (assuming there is one)
• use a separate ATA adapter on a PCI card (assuming there is an available PCI slot)

While the first option might be the most expensive, I would recommend it because it will just work. Using separate bridges or adapter cards might cause new trouble like not being able to boot or not supporting ATAPI devices.

At least with VirtualBox 4.2.6, this isn't possible on a Windows host unless the CD/DVD drive is attached through USB, and you can use USB capture to allow the guest exclusive access to the device. A more common SATA or IDE drive will be shared with the guest, even if you select the "Passthrough" option on the virtual storage configuration.

More info is available here: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch05.html#storage-cds