External hard drive only operating system, 500.g western digital, jumpers how should they be set if it has them? It does.

I have removed the original apple fujitsu HDD because of a crash, I installed the OS X 10.6 on two external drives, and they actually will fit in the place of the original.
But they both have jumpers and from when I dinked with my windows PC s and setting the jumpers I am retty sure they need to be set up to be known if they are the slave or master and all?
One of the drives is a 80.g western digital it has 4 little leads there where the jumpers are so more ways to slide the little part in place to establish what role it is to take?
It is used just to run time machine.
The other drive is a 500.g WD also just loaded with the OSX DVD 10.5 but it only has two little jumper leads, but that is 2 more than the fujitsu that was originally installed.
So I would like to put this one inside my macbook pro and both of them will plug right in place for a more solid connection so that is my situation, and would be grateful for some experience here as needed to apply for best and longest possible smooth running.
Thanks and hope to hear something ASAP, that is if I dont run into a wall and crash?
Or does it even matter being a laptop it may just default to the internal drive, and from there it is determined either by me holding the alt option, or C key down at start u to decide?
I don't know I just drive the thing and not that well. Thanks

FWIW ? Whats that mean? One of the drives had a jumper on it, the other just a place for one the pins but nothing on them.
So since I am going to put the one in my macbook that actually has a jumper and being supplied I am just trying to find out as much as possible in case my macbook drops another DUCE at least I have one less thing to eliminate to recover.
first two pins jumped usually is master drive, second is slave, 3rd don't know, 4th is both, it lets drive decide.
But thats with internal home pc drives, I have a MAXTOR I removed from a G3 mac today so I could look, and it is jumped like no windows pc drive I have ever seen.
But thanks I am going to check with western digital and find out, value my mac working too much, especially after being on a god forsaken internet exploder loaner windows computer the last week.
I wanted to spike it just for fun, but it wouldn't have been in less I was spiking it on the head of who built IE, I just cant stand trying to move on the internet and always end up where they want to go.
anyhow thanks, David FWIW?

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