External drive enclosure?

I wonder if anyone can help me with my mad plan!
I have an old (2001) external firewire 400 Formac CD rewriter. On dismantling, this proves to be a beige Ricoh drive in a funky box, with EIDE (I think) and power cables plugged into it.
The 32x8x8 drive has been massively superceded by the superdrive in my new computer, so I wondered if I could use the box to run my 120GB Western digital hard drive.
I've removed the CR-RW, plugged the cables into the hard disk (they all seem to fit), jumpered it as a single / master (no jumpers set) and turned it on. It spun up, made hard disky noises, but didn't show up on my computer.
First, is this possible? I can't believe its not, so second, what else do I need to do? I don't really know what I'm doing!

Normally, it doesn't matter if you turn the disk on before you start the computer or you turn it on and plug by Firewire to the computer already started.
But one more question:
(really I don't want to make you nervous, but sometimes you look at something and you don't see simple and obvious things)
can you check if the ATA cable connected to the disk is in the proper position?
I know that my question sounds a little bit stupid, but once I saw in one office tha somebody pluged (somehow) this cable rotaded at 180 degrees. At first look I didn't noticed it. And a CD/DVD recorder can have the socked rotated (in comparision to the HD)
So, please check it just for instance, because I suppose that Mike and me are out of new ideas ;-( how to solve it.

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