Installed SSD, now i've lost two bays.

so i finally intalled a SSD as boot drive in the optical bay, using an ODD port. I unscrewed the backplane of hard drive bay 1 to pass the sata cable, screwed it back in, and now the bay apparently doesn't even supply power to a drive (it doesn't spin up.)
should i unscrew the backplane completely, to see if inadvertently disconnected the power cable? Would i recognize it?
also, bay 2 no longer recognizes jHFS+ formatted drives. Disk utility says that (any) drive in bay 2 is MBR format. When i try to reformat, DU crashes.
Mounting an already jHFS+ formatted drive externally afterwards and the volume stays intact. But in bay 2, DU says MBR.
am i helicoidally fastened and need to bring it in to the shop?

Hi I_elephant,
Did you follow the instructions in Lloyd Chambers' Mac Performance Guide's "Installation in older Mac Pros (2006-2008) for installing an SSD in an older Mac Pro?:
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-InstallingSSD.html
If not, perhaps you did something wrong.
Regards,
Bill

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