Eide connected burner question

[TontoRodrigues]

I am replacing my LG burner with a Yamaha CRW 2100 EZ (any comments on the Yamaha would be appreciated) and the yamaha is EIDE. In one of Charlie's posts he said to "ensure that it is placed on the secondary IDE channel". I need some clarification on this. What does this mean ? Is this a wiring or a programing deal. I did a search and didnot find more info on this.

[NightStalker]

Its a port on your computers mother board that the ribbon cable from a cd-rom,cdrw and hd connects to. Trace the ribbon cable from the back of your CD-ROM, to the ide connection on the board, Do not mess with the HD, next to where it plugs in you should see a extra port,(if you have one) if not check the cd-rom's cable there should be a connector in the middle, use it to plug into the back of the cdrw. set the cd-rom as the master and the cdrw as the slave, you do not want to connect the cdrw to the same ide port with the HD.

[TontoRodrigues]

Thanks, that clears it up.