Booting From OS X Tiger Hard drive to OS 9 on Second internal Hard drive

I just purchased a used PowerMac G4 with OS tiger installed. I removed the hard drive from my PowerMac G3 and installed it into the G4, using the second connection on the flat cable going to the internal drive in the G4. The just installed hard drive was the G3 only drive and contains OS 9 system. OS X tiger works fine and if I open OS 9 applications the classic OS 9 destop opens and opens the programs and documents located on the former G3 hard drive with out any issues. I have had some small issues with items not supported by classic but now I am not able to print to my Cannon iP5000 with dependable success and no duplexing at all which I had no problems with on the G3. I have downloaded new drivers from the Cannon site but no luck there also. I would like to boot up in OS 9 but when I go to start-up disk in OS X my OS 9 hard drive is not vissible and likewise only the OS X drive is vissible using the hold option key on start-up. The G4 is a 2003 unit but does have one Firewire 800 port. The G4 seller told me that the unit was originally dual bootable but maybe the Tiger made this not possible any more. Any answers?

Thank you. I guess I should have asked the question about G4s dual bootability here before I bought the computer as that was the reason I went with a G4. It still runs the OS 9 applications I need in the Classic mode and my Cannon iP5000 works like it did in OS 9 while in classic, allowing me to set up through Chooser. I bought on Ebay and I did read both ways, from another sellers, about the firewire 800 machines not being dual bootable. That is why I asked the seller I bought from and was told this machine was definately dual bootable when he purchased it. Thanks again, the apple article is pretty conclusive.

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