Thank you for your accuracy. My skepticism paid off only because you stepped in. Safe advice is better than no advice and I will take the lesson learned.
Oh wait, I didn't give advice to take any action. Now that my lesson has been provided to me I am going to use it if and when I open up my computer case... through research on motherboard connections. I must learn.
<start quote /asdfEliasdf> Is it possible for a DVD drive to be a slave? It's not a hard drive. <end quote /asdfEliasdf>
<start quote /patio> an Optical drive...or any drive can be set to either master...or slave... <end quote /patio>