Can I use second drive from my G5 in a Mac Pro?

Does anyone know whether I can transfer the second drive in my G5 Power Mac to an opend rive bay in a Mac Pro?
Thanks in advance
Rod

Daniel,
Rest assured your 2-3 yr old SATA drives will work. An "ATA" (EIDE or PATA) will not work. There is a tight fit, but nothing to prevent using any SATA drive.
Your G5 drives will work just fine. Drives that are newer, SATA II (3Gb/sec) will run slightly better, and the Mac Pro has support for things like NCQ.
Four drive "sleds" are included, each with the necessary screws for attaching a SATA drive. The 250GB Seagate 7200.9 drive included with the computer had SATA-only power connections, while a 80GB Maxtor SATA drive from our Power Mac G5/1.8 had both SATA and traditional power connections, but it, too, fit into the supplied sockets when the sled was pushed into place.
Serial ATA Drive Interface
The Mac Pro comes standard with one 7200 rpm, 3 Gbps Serial ATA (SATA) disk drive and three additional 3 Gbps SATA slots for adding hard disk drives. The SATA drives interface through an AHCI 1.1 controller that supports advanced SATA-II features Native Command Queuing (NCQ) and PHY power management. NCQ increases performance on random workloads by allowing the drive to re-order commands to reduce seek time and increase transactional efficiency.
In addition, the Mac Pro has two unpopulated 3 Gbps SATA buses for expansion. Looking at System Profiler, all 6 SATA busses seem to be active
For more information on SATA, see Serial ATA International Organization.
For information on the AHCI controller, see AHCI Specifications.
Also, take a look at the "Do It Yourself" pdf:
http://www.apple.com/support/manuals/macpro_diy/
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