G4 doesn't see the new hard drive I just installed

I figure I've probably done something elementary stupid... hope someone will straighten me out.
Following recommendations from the forum from about a year ago, I finally bought a Seagate 7200 120gb SATA drive, SeriTek/IS2 Host Card, and "Y" splitter cable.
I put it all together as seemed to make sense -- Using the "Y" cable to connect the drive to power (4-pin connector marked P2) (this leave one power connection left over on the "Y" cable), SeriTek Card in PCI slot, and SATA cable connecting the Card to the new drive.
System Profile and Disk Utility do not see either the Card or the Drive. I tried the SeriTek Card in a different PCI slot and re-checked all the connections -- still no hard drive. The new hard drive is getting power, as I can hear it spinning up.
Did I connect things right? Or do I have two dead PCI slots? Is there some other thing I need to do to get my system to recognize the SeriTek card and Hard Drive.)
Help much appreciated! I'm a tech newbie...
Dual 500 G4 Ethernet 20gb HD 756mb RAM Radeon 8500    

I ran permissions repair -- which returned an error -- disk utility lost connection with disk manager utility or somesuch. Disk repair didn't fix that. So now I have a new problem.
I talked to tech support at FirmTek and they think it's slimly possible that I zapped the card with static as I took it out of the wrap, or otherwise managed to damage it. They've asked me to test it in a different machine (if I can find a friend who has one that is similarly set up.) If the problem is with the card, they assure me they'll replace it, no problem. Or, I might have two bad PCI slots -- either possibility is unlikely -- but these seem to be the remaining explanations.
Thanks for your assistance and wish me luck!

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