Mac G4 won't boot with slave drive connected

I have two G4 boxes. 1-Dual 867 Leopard and 1 -Dual 1.25 Tiger.
I have been trying to clone the system drive of the Dual 867. Everytime I add the second drive to the 867 box and try to boot i get the "Flashing ?." I have tried various reformatted drives and the result is the same. I have even tried to accomplish this by using the 1.25 box. Same result.
if i unhook the 2nd drive (ie backup drive) both computers will boot as usual.
What is the problem?

Hi larbok, and a warm welcome to the forums!
I think it's the Jumper settings on the Hard drive.
Older G4s should be set to Master on the end cable & Slave for the Middle of the cable.
MDD usually use the Cable Select jumper settings on both drives.
Jumper settings are generally shown on the HDs themselves.

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