A technician has been asked to install a new PATA CD/DVD drive in a tower computer that currently has two PATA hard drives already installed. One hard drive is configured as primary master and is located in the bay closest to the motherboard. The second drive is configured as secondary master and is in the bay above the first hard drive. The only available bay is above the second drive and the only cable that will reach is the one that goes to the second hard drive. How will the technician configure the drive?
A) As secondary slave
B) As primary secondary
C) As secondary master
D) As primary slave

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The technician will configure the new PATA CD/DVD drive as a secondary slave because the second hard drive is already configured as a secondary master, and the PATA interface allows for a master and a slave device on the same cable.

A Technician Has Been Asked to Install a New PATA