Installed additional hard drive, previous one is not recognized.

I have a G4 867 MDD using 4 internal hard drives. In the ATA100 bay, I had a Seagate which was my main System drive. I just bought a larger drive intended to become my system drive, so I moved the Seagate to the outer slave position. I changed the jumpers accordingly.
Problem is the computer now doesn't see my Seagate as a startup option, and will only boot into OS 9.2.2. First message is that the disk is unreadable, do I wan't to initialize? No! However, in this message, it does correctly see the drive as a 149 Gig drive. When I booted into OS X from an external drive, the profiler did see the Seagate but said it only was a 31 Gig drive, when in fact 149 is accurate. However it did not and does not mount on the desktop. Seagate is barely a year old, so I don't suspect drive failure. It worked perfectly before this.
I rechecked everything to make sure the cables were secure, etc. A year or so ago I had done the same kind of switching over when I bought the Seagate, but that time all was fine and when I booted, it defaulted to the old system, which is what should be happening now.
I need some help here, thanks!

Hi, opto -
...the profiler did see the Seagate but said it only was a 31 Gig drive...
Recheck the jumpers on that drive carefully. Some drives came with an additional jumper and position, which limited the effective capacity of the drive to 32GB (because some PC processors could not address a drive size larger than that).
...so I moved the Seagate to the outer slave position. I changed the jumpers accordingly.
It's not necessary to change the jumpers. With two drives on an ATA bus, it makes no difference to the Mac which is Master and which is Slave, nor which is connected to what connector. See the last paragraph of -
Article #24342 - Power Macintosh G3 and G4: IDE Master and Slave Support and Configuration
G4 MDD models can use the Cable Select jumper settings. You might experiment with setting the drives that way.

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