Install OS on third SATA drive

I have three SATA drives in my Mac Pro, I can install Mac OS on either of the first two drives, but the third drive, which I just installed in bay 3 appears in the installer with a stop icon and says that the system cannot boot from this drive.
I first tried with the third drive divided into six partitions, but when that didn't work I made it back into one but still the stop sign.
Does this make sense?

The installaer requires that the partition map scheme be set to GUID Partition Table. To set this go to Disk Utility and click on the Options… button in the Partition tab.

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Power down the notebook and start it pressed ESC key.
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4. Press escape, choose Save / Exit.
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If not, click on the FAQ link in my sig and read #5(HDD's) for the proper Bios settings to enable all the SATA/IDE ports on this motherboard.
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