How do I resolve a disk Insertion error?

Hello and thank you,
I recently upgraded my G4 to The tiger OS. All went smooth during the upgrade but, when the computer restarted both of my 17.1 gb quantum Atlas hard drives went missing and I received two disk insertion errors. I selected initialize but was unable to select any options in the disk utilities. Both hard drives still appear.
I decided to restarted my computer but this time my mac froze on the gray screen and told me to restart once more. I shut it down unplugged all cables and disconnected the hard drives thinking these where the problem and powered up. I saw a file folder with a question mark then it operated as normal.
After some experimenting I've deduced that when both hard drives are connected the G4 will freeze at the gray screen 75% of the time. If both Hard drives are not connected the machine will run fine with the exception of showing the question mark file.
Is there a way to have my mac recognize the two hard drives or is tiger not compatible with these hard drives?

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