Cables for 2nd internal SATA HD?

I'm about to buy a 2nd internal SATA drive for use with the build-in internal SATA controller in my Dual G5 Tower (2003).
However, I've heard that many PC component vendors keep prices down by selling hard disks without any "extras" like screws, data cables, and power cables.
I've checked this document:
http://www.info.apple.com/usen/cip/pdf/g5/073-0806.pdf
which tells me that there are screws waiting for the 2nd drive, but it dosn't mention cables.
So, are there a 2nd set of SATA data & power cables already in the PowerMac G5? Or will I have to buy them along with the drive?
Thanks in advance,
./ddd
Dual G5 2.0GHz (2003 PCI-X) Mac OS X (10.4.6) Radeon 9800 (retail)

Retail packaged drives come with hardware ( cables, screws, et al ), bare or OEM drives come as bulk packaged multiples w/o hardware. In most cases there is little differance in pricing ( retail may or may not be pricier ), the hardware include with retail is generally very cheap ( read not the best ) and better avoided.

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Hello everyone,
I was transferring and deleting very large files from my main drive, a 2nd 250GB SATA internal drive, and an external 250GB FW800 drive recently (about 50GB worth of data transfered), and decided to run disk warrior and repair my permissions/verify disk in disk utilities once completed.
Everything seemed fine until I verified my 2nd internal drive upon which I received the following error: "First Aid Failed" citing "Invalid node structure" and that the volume needs to be repaired. I attempted to Repair disk, though the process stops and I get the same error "Volume could not be repaired because of an error."
This 2nd SATA drive only holds data (I'm a musician so it only holds sample data for streaming in Logic) but it contains allot of information (185GB used of 233GB) which according to my math comes out to about 80% used. This should be acceptable amount, correct? The drive also has Journaling enabled, though I'm not sure if its relevant or not.
What should I do? The drive itself seems to be working fine, but why would disk utility have a problem reading/repairing it if its indeed fine. Should I be worried? The drive is probably no more than 2 years old, so it cant be drive failure yet, can it?
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
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This 2nd SATA drive only holds data (I'm a musician
so it only holds sample data for streaming in Logic)
but it contains allot of information (185GB used of
233GB) which according to my math comes out to about
80% used. This should be acceptable amount, correct?
Yes, that's fine.
The drive also has Journaling enabled, though I'm not
sure if its relevant or not.
Hmm, I think I once had a drive with a directory problem that couldn't be fixed with DiskWarrior without journaling being (temporarily) disabled. After disabling journaling, I used DiskWarrior to Rebuild the drive's directory, then I reenabled journaling.
What should I do? The drive itself seems to be
working fine, but why would disk utility have a
problem reading/repairing it if its indeed fine.
Should I be worried? The drive is probably no more
than 2 years old, so it cant be drive failure yet,
can it?
I'm afraid it could be, I've had drives fail at any time between half a year after purchase up to 3 or more years after. Though often one hears the drive "die", or notices very slow performance due to bad blocks being weeded out, and the S.M.A.R.T. status - visible in Disk Utility (only for internal drives) in the bottom right, when you select a drive (not volume) is an indicator of a harddisk's health as well (though not the most complete, see this hint, or S.M.A.R.T. Guard).
Update: I tried to graph the problem drive again in
diskwarrior, and this time an error occurred! This
obviously did not happen the first time I used
diskwarrior to graph and build a new directory, so
something must have happened recently.
Did you try to repair anything with Disk Utility in the meantime?
What could
have happened? What should I do?
So did the Repair with DiskWarrior not finish? What kind of error was it?
In my experience, DiskWarrior mostly fixed any directory trouble. For more serious cases, see this thread.

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Hi,
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