This is normal.
It is using the EIDE connection. The book says that if you have a hard drive and a CD that the hard drive should be the master and the CD will be the slave.
Connect the CD drive as a slave(change jumper pin).
IF the CD drive shares an IDE channel with a hard drive, make the hard drive the master and the CD drive the slave.
yes. pata and ide are the same thing.
EIDE
You could format two hard drives at same time but both need to be connected by the sata connector cable.
The hard drive should be on the bottom connector and all you other drives on the top connectors. Thats how mines connected!!!!!!!! :-)
Cable Select or by the jumpers put on the hard drive
is a cable with many conducting wires running parallel to each other on the same flat plane.
It is the same as a laptop hard drive
There is no requirement that one or the other is the Master or Slave, as long as one of them is (if they are on the same cable.)
Both drives are using the same interface (IDE, SCSI, not SATA I or II because you can only connect one device to a SATA cable). If you have installed Operating system it's better to set the hard drive to Master, and the CD drive to slave. In that way your system will not ask the CD drive to boot up everytime when you start your computer. CD drive should be set to Master only when you are reinstalling/installing OS or you have repair it.