Can I put these drives from my old PPC power Mac G5 in my brand new Mac Pro

My old Mac stopped working and it was time for a new one. I think the motherboard died. Can I put my old hard drives in the empty bays on the brand new Mac? I have
Seagate ES 2 750 GB Serial ATA
Hitachi HDS722525VLSA80 SATA 250 GB
Thanks in advance
Steve

Should not be a problem, but that doesn't mean that just having the PPC system doesn't / hasn't affected one or two users.
The safest way is to put it in a FW case of course, a way to mount it after boot up.
Run the Mac Pro as is for a day. Clone the system, may as well get started with backup and fall back if needed. Even run Apple Hardware Test. Get to know everything works, booting, monitor and everything, and that it sleeps/wakes and does all the normal things it should properly.
Guide to using migration assistant answers most.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=435350
And dozens of pages on basic how to and setting up:
http://macperformanceguide.com/index_topics.html

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