My HD's like to go to sleep on the job - Causes one **** of a freeze

PPC G3 Blue & White 400 MHz, 640 MB RAM, 13.6 GB HD (Primary) 6 GB HD (Secondary Storage) on same IDE chain. Primary Dev - 0 secondary dev - 1. Running OS 9.2.2. If you need any other details, ask, and you shall receive...
System boots up fine, no extension conflicts as per first thing I tested.
Performed Disk First Aid from OS Install CD ROM. THe 6 GB HD registered PEOF error, and could not repair. Isolated the problem, backed up files, and initialized the HD zeroing Data.
reformatted to Mac OS - Extended, and now sits empty waiting for storage.
Problem = during operation they system has a mild freeze as one of the HD spins up (Similar sound as during boot of system) and can usually resolve itself in a few minutes. Then after a while, the system completely freezes,and the HD's do the same sound, I can't even move the mouse, and takes hours to resolve. As I have a USB MP3 player, the computer treats it as a disk to mount, and if I improperly remove it, I have this same sort of freeze. It's almost like the HD's unmount, then try to remount when needed. Any one have any IDeas as to what may be happening?
I will be troubleshooting further this weekend. I will be trying to isolate which HD is giving the problem. I will be Installing OS 9 on the 6GB, and will try running the computer with only one HD at a time. Whichever one freezes, is gonna get da boot! It won't be a worry to get rid of, as I will be installing a 30 GB next month.
If anyone out there has any other ideas / suggestions, your help would be greatly appreciated

FIrst thing, Grant, I hate to be the one to tell you this but my Blue & White G3 Hackintosh does in fact support Cable select on the hard drives, and does so quite well I might add.
Anyways, the issue is solved, and thank you to all who submitted their suggestions. The original config by physically designating Master / slave set up caused nothing but PEOF errrors on the disk. This weekend, I attempted to run the hard drives individually to see if one was experiencing physical problems. Once it was determined that both Hardrives function properly, I tried reversing the master slave setup and physically designating Master / Slave with the jumpers. Again, problems. I then shut down, removed the HD's and set the jumpers for both to be cable select. I first booted from the OS disks and performed a full initialize on both HD's, zeroing all data, and a clean OS9 went into my now master 6GB hardrive. After establishing the startup disks, I shut down crossed my fingers, and booted from HD.
Voila! Success. The unit booted fine, and is accepting new software. My backed up files have been integrated to the 13.6GB HD and apps are installed on the 6GB. There hasn't been a single freeze, and the computer has been in a testing mode for 72 hours straight. All functions have been tested thoughroughly, and by the end of the week, I should have everything restored.
After the testing cycle, I ran a performance diagnostic, and found that the system is running at optimum, which is the first time since the whole resurrection process started a month ago.

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