On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 16:34:38 -0700, "Mikey"
<nospam@email.com> wrote:

>Is it ok to have a hard drive and DVD burner sharing the secondary IDE
>cable?

yes

>Should I put the burner as the master and the hard drive as the
>slave? I only plan to use the hard drive as storage.

If that's the way you want them, yes. You can do it either
way though, either drive can be master providing there is no
odd incompatibility or bug... in other words, this is
generally true but YMMV.