> The typical mother board has two IDE channels with two devices allowed on
> each channel, usually referred to as primary and secondary (or sometimes
> master and slave). The question is: when attaching only one device to a
> channel, is it necessary to attach it to the primary (or master)
> connection? Or is it possible to leave that empty and attach one device
> (such as a CD-ROM drive) to the secondary (slave) connection only?

     Most of the time, no, as long as it isn't a hard drive it shouldn't be
a problem, however... there was one case where the secondary master wasn't
recognized with no primary slave. Yes it took me about 1 hour to figure out
that was the problem. It was the only system I had ever seen that had that
problem. My recommendation, try it, if it doesn't work than you know that is
probably the problem and try something else. TTYL

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