Mac won't detect second superdrive (pics)

so, here's the story. i flashed my macs superdrive (both of them) and after that one of them was just completely gone. when i go into system profiler and go under hawrdware and into ATA, it detects both drives, but when i go into Disc Burning, i only see one.
Mac Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Mac Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)
any and all help would be greatly appreciated as i can't burn discs right now. thanks.

thank you for all of your responces, but it sounds like the easiest method to fixing this is just replacing my drives.
1. Are both drives set with CS selected?
I'm not sure what CS stands for. Sorry
2. Did both drives come with the Mac Pro?
Both drives are stock.
3. Can you provide a link to the flasher and the firmware you used?
http://www.hardmac.com/articles/62/page3/
4. What command did you use to make the flash work?
http://www.hardmac.com/articles/62/page3/
5. Did you dump the old firmware to oldfirm.bin so you
could go back to it?
yes, i did. and i went back and tried dumping the oldfirm.bin but when i try and do that, the terminal says that there is an error. i suspect that there is an error because it can't see the second drive, it only sees one.
like i said earlier, it is my own fault for messing around with this awesome machine and 30 bucks for a new drive is a small price to pay for learning not to mess with things that you aren't too sure how to mess with. it's a shame i can't fix these drives though, i didn't even get to burn a single disc.

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