One device should be master, if there is a second device it should be slave. It does not matter where they go on the cable. If you use a 80 wire cable the blue plug should go on the motherboard.

Robert Spike wrote:

I am adding a CDR-W drive to my Windows XP system. I have them hooked
together with the flat cable. My understanding is that the "middle"
connection goes to the Slave drive. The end connection goes to the
"main" drive.

When I turn the computer back on, it hangs and won't boot up.

Any ideas? How, exactly, should the jumpers be set?

Please feel free to post here or e-mail me directly at
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Thanks for any assistance.

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Mike Walsh
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.