Hard disk slave startup problems

[Matsaki]

I have a Blue and White G3/400 at home.

I have 2 internal hard disks which I know have the right configuration as Master and Slave. How ever I changed the possition of the disks, I am not able to startup from my slave hard disk as computer do not find the hard disk/system folder's. I have been told that this is a common problem of the Blue G3, but havent been able to find out exactly what the problem is, and if there is any fix to this =(

Somebody suggested me to make the 2 hard disks master and the CD slave. Can that work??

 

[rubberchicken]

There are two types of blue and white logic boards. One will support master and slave ide hard drives and the other will not. If your hard drive carrier is a long metal tray that can hold 3 hard drives then your computer will not support master/slave. If the hard drive carrier has two connectors and can hold 4 internal hard drives then your computer will support master and slave, all that assumes that you have not had a logic board replacement.

The bus for the cd-rom and zip is a different type to the bus for the hard drives. Your best solution is to get a pci hard drive controller card and connect your drive to it.

 

[Matsaki]

I have the older type B&W G3 without support for slave hard drive as you describe, but the slave I installed can be used without any problems, but not as a startup disk ??