Adding to that... It is "generally accepted" (or recommended) that
if an HD and a CD share a cable, the HD should be Master.
This is because an HD was made to be on that channel but a CD
was a kludge and is emulated as an IDE/EIDE/(ATAPI) device...

                                                   Rick Glazier

From: "David Gillett"
>   Two secondary masters?  That doesn't sound right; if you have two devices
> on the secondary channel, one of them should be a slave.

> On 21 Sep 2004 at 6:23, Tom M Abel wrote:

> > I have one hard drive set as primary master; another hard drive as
> > secondary master, and the CD-ROM as Secondary Master.  During boot, all
> > three are found and displayed as being there.  Somehow, before or when it
> > gets to the desktop, the D drive is gone and the E drive, CD-ROM is gone.

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