By your description, it sounds as if your optical drives are both on the same IDE channel, and that channel is seperate from your hard disk.
On any IDE channel with two devices, there must always be a Master device and a Slave device. You can usually set each device to Master or Slave using a small jumper (or bridge) on the rear of the drive. The settings for the drive are usually marked in one of three places: on the top of the drive (where model number, mfr., etc. is listed), on the back of the drive etched into the metal or on the underside of the drive silkscreened onto the PCB. If the settings are in none of these places (which is exceedingly rare, these days), chances are good that you will want to Google the drive's part number for documentation. Be sure to set one drive for Master and one for Slave. Some drives have additional options like Cable Select and Single Drive. Try to avoid these - unpredictable things can happen when you have two drives on the bus.
Once the BIOS (or EFI if you're on a newer Intel board) sees the two devices, then most any Operating System should detect the drives, at the very least. Hope that helps a little...
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