Are you going to use it as a master or slave? It would appear that as a slave, no jumpers are needed. The jumper in a horizontal position is equivalent to having nothing jumped. It's a way of storing the jumper on the drive without using it.
You should have no trouble booting from this drive. If it's the only drive in the system, it must be jumped as master. If it's the secondary drive, it can have the jumper removed or positioned horizontally, as it is now.
With the new G4, you do not need to jump new IDE drives as being Master. New drives support automatic configuration based on which IDE edge connector that is connected to it. If you look carefully on the G4s (at least my Sawtooth), you see 2 edge connectors with 2 different color schemes. This differentiate between Master and Slave.
Both my Barracuda (Seagate) and Maxtor were not even jumped. The advantage would be if you're running Raid 1 (Mirror Raid) and that, if one drive died, a replacement drive can be quickly put in without figuring out whether it's set to Master or Slave.
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