Does it matter weather my burner is on a 80 ide cable or 40, because when i set it as master on my secondarey ide cable with the 40 cable it does not detect but will if i put it as slave with my hard drive on the primary ide 80 cable.

I am woundering this because if I choose bios to use cdrom as my boot device it will take that as my burner not my cdrom.

My fear is that if i am running knoppix linux off my burner if that would put stress on it and maybe I should not do that otherwise i am happy with my current setup.

Ideas?