Tiger and two internal drives on G-4--Master & Slave

Guys/Gals:
I have a 933 MHz Quicksilver Mac with which can handle the ATA 133 since it was an ULtra ATA though the Baracuda Seagate was a ATA IV.
Knowing this I tried to install the Max Ultra ATA/133 drive kit . I really tried to follow the on-line instructions from Maxtor for an Mac--but I missed the instructions in the Maxtor Drive manual which is highly Windoz oriented.
I had a devil of a time getting the drive to show up on my desk top so I could format it.
After a lot of experimenting and frustgration, I rebooted and inserted Tiger CD and now formatted the volume totally in HFS+ after switching the drive arround and changing the jumper settings on the Maxtor.
All is in working order now.
I do have a secondary issue:
Can I place the opperating system on this drive Maxtor now even though it is a slave to the smaller Baracuda 60 GB master drive?
Bobg
POWER MAC G-4 (933 MHz QuickSilver) Mac OS X (10.4.5) iSite
POWER MAC G-4 (933 MHz QuickSilver)   Mac OS X (10.4.5)   iSite

You can put the OS onto any properly formatted disk/volume/partition. I have my two HDs partitioned and have three Tiger, two Panther, and two OS 9 boot partitions.

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