basically, i have 3 hard drives and one cd burner. on my primary ide, i put to hard drives, and on my secondary ribbon, i have my burner and other drive. i have it set up with the hard drive on secondary master, and the burner on secondary slave. for some reason, when i unplug the burner, my hard drive detects fine, but when i do plug in my burner, all it detects is the burner and not the hard drive. what im 'thinking' of doing is setting the hard drive to master, but i dont noe if that'll fix the problem and sounds really dumb. im thinking since its on secondary master... im i supposed to set the jumper on the hard drive to master? someone plz help... this has been bugging me for a week.
you got it mate even though your on secondary channel you still need to set jumpers correctly,so should have hard drive jumper at master and burner jumper as slave.