Mounting Old PC Internal HD

I got a bunch of old IDE internal HDs free coz me school's upgrading the computer science lab. I've hooked them up to this casing I have (well, its only the back part of the casing, I've lost the box) and am trying to use them as external HDs. It seems to work fine under Windows Vista - I can mount, transfer and unmount fine. But under OS X it just doesn't show up anywhere - disk utility, the desktop, nowhere.
Its been formatted to FAT32 but I have NTFS-3g installed and use it to read NTFS disks all the time. Even that shouldn't be a problem.
Also, I should probably point out that these drives are pretty old. Definitely 5+ years of service in the lab. Would that have an effect ?

daneel_olivaw,
It's undoubtedly the bridge that you are using (the "partial" enclosure). Not all IDE-to-USB bridges are compatible, especially older ones. Try a different enclosure.
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