Failing HD's or is problem the main ATA bus

OK i'll try to give all the facts and keep this post as short as possable
I have G4 sawtooth? dual 1 gig with 3 hard drives, the 80 gig seagate that came with the G4 connected to the main ATA bus and about a year ago i added a 120 gig Maxtor as slave along with another Maxtor drive 80 gig i added as slave to the CD/DVD drive. Up to a couple of weeks ago no problems.
I leave my computer on at all times.
Both drives connected to main ata bus both drives running Tiger10.4.7
and the third OS 9.2.2
the problem started if i needed to restart for any reason, upon booting back up 1 or the other did not show up, checked all the connections, even using a new ata cable.... no change, just a restart would cause one or the other not to appear never to the the 3rd drive.
The problem keep happining more freqently, getting to the point that both drives would not appear, so it only booted off the OS 9 drive.
Ran disk utility on both drives
Checking the slave drive with 4 partitions never indicated any problems,
A few weeks ago the Master drive{Seagate) gave me 2 errors, "could not unmount drive" same thing using Techtool, i could not verify permmisions, "no valid packages found"
The drive still operated fine.
Now yesterday both drives would not show up and would only boot off the OS 9 drive.
Spent most of the night trying anything i could think of
One last thing struck me, I coneccted the OS 9 drive as master and pluged it into the main ata bus, you guessed it that drive did not boot,
after that i connected the other two drives to ata bus that the CD?DVD drive was connected to and upon starting up both drives are up and running fine so far (still got the same error messesages off the same drive as before).
So what am i dealing with here, i think there is a problem with the main ata bus.
So as of now im up and running with only 2 drives,
the third drive and the CD?DVD pluged into the main bus do not show up.
Well i think i covered everything, now anybody got any ideas on what's happining with the main ata bus, can't take it out to fix it, my only source of income is disability so paying someone is out of the question!
What to do?
Thanks for reading this now i await to hear from you.
sknoxx
Sawtooth G4 desktop duel 1gig   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

is this what i need
I need a ide pci controler card with an ata133 interface
can i keep the drives i have internal
i m going to buy another HD 250 gig, now that will have to be external
right?
will the sawtooth model give me all 250 gigs
will the drive transfer data quicker than the iniernal drives
how many drives can be connected
i already have a pci usb card so i don't want usb or firewire
does it have to be mac only or will a pc card work as well
im in Hawaii so i would rather buy it here to avoid shipping costs
is this what i need?
this is at compusa for $40
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StarTech.com Dual Channel Serial ATA PCI Controller Card
(Based on manufacturer's information)Make the jump to Serial ATA performance with a two-port Serial ATA controller card from StarTech.com. The PCISATA provides your system with two independent Serial ATA ports for connecting internal Serial ATA devices like hard drives, CD-ROMs, CD-RWs and DVD drives.
Cutting-edge Serial ATA connectivity at the fraction of the cost of a new motherboard, the PCISATA2 is compatible with both Windows® and Linux® operating system environments and is backed by our lifetime warranty and FREE lifetime tech support.
Features
Compliant with PCI Specification V2.2
Compliant with Serial ATA Specification V1.0
High-speed data transfer rates of up to 150 MBytes/sec
Two independent Serial ATA channels support one Serial ATA device on each channel
Controller Type: SATA
Slot Type: PCI
Port Connectors:
2 x SATA Female
are any of rhese what i need?
EIDE ULTRA ATA-133/100 PRO CONTROLLER FOR MAC
Price Range: $55.87-79.99
Manufacturer: SIIG Inc. Part number: SCMP4A12
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General
Device Type
Plug-in card
Type:Interface Type
PCI
Localization
English:N/a
Expansion / Connectivity
Expansion Slot(s) Total
1 PCI
Port(s) Total (Free) / Connector Type:Port(s) Total (Free) / Connector Type Port(s) Total (Free) / Connector Type
2 2 for PC connection Storage ATA-133 40 pin IDC Male 2 Internal Installed
Expansion Bay(s) Total
None
Expansion / Port(s) Required
Slot(s) Required
1 PCI
Port(s) / Connector(s) Required
None
Bay(s) Required
None
Software / System Requirements
Operating system
Apple MacOS X, Apple MacOS 8.6, Apple MacOS 9.x
Storage Controller
Storage Controller Supported Device Type:Supported Device Type
CD drive, Hard drive
Storage Controller:RAID Level
N/A
Data Transfer Rate
133 MBps
Storage Controller:Controller Interface Type
ATA-133
Max Storage Devices Qty
4
Controller Interface Type:Channel Qty
2
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Retail
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Limited warranty Parts and labor 5 years Bring-in
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None
sknoxx
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