Master-Slave setup

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Is it ok to have a master CD-drive and a slave harddrive on the same PATA ribbon cable? Do I need to mess with the jumpers on the back of these devices if I put them in this configuration?

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If it boots up and loads properly then it should be okay and isn't going to hurt anything.

Ideally (and what you should do IF it isn't booting) is put the hard drive as master, and the CD as slave, then put both of their jumpers to either cable select or set their jumpers to master/slave as they are setup on the PATA cable.
 
Whether the optical drive is mastered at the end or slaved on the middle won't make any difference. The master or slave jumper setting will be required for the optical drive since cable select won't work for that. But you can easily set the hard drive as slave or cable select on the middle connector and see the OS installed load from it.

The current arrangement of drives in the build here is a good example of that seeing two optical drives one being sata instead of an ide model with Vista still on an ide HD slaved to the ide optical on the single ide channel. Yet the default boot device is actually one of the two sata HDs in.

Two Linux distros will soon replace the copy of Windows on the ide drive since the pair of sata drives see a working dual boot of XP and Vista on those. The default boot device deciding which hard drive installed becomes the default is set in the bios setup where the list of drives installed are displayed. You simply move one to the top of the list when more then one are installed.
 
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