MyBook Studio Edition and Mac pro

So i got my Mac Pro today and have my MyBook Studio Edition 500GB hard drive with about 90GB of stuff I need to transfer over. Doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the MyBook, but when I attach it to the Mac Pro, it won't mount. The ports recognize that there's something there, but not the drive. Am I out of luck? I had only intended on keeping this drive long enough to dump my files, but now I can't even do that. I tried it in the firewire, firewire 800 and USB ports. Someone mentioned updating the firmware, but how can I do that if the drive isn't being recognized?
I also can't seem to force power down the MyBook. If I hold the power button in, it just stays on.
Any suggestions?

You can of course read what the button does from Apple.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304123
http://www.apple.com/support/macpro/
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/HardwareDrivers/Conceptual/MacPro_0608/Articles/M43_0906arch.html
Others have said that the button manager doesn't work with Leopard.
And if you just got the Mac Pro, you should have 10.5.1 and the original system (hopefully cloned before doing anything) and only done fresh install where needed with latest Leopard compatible programs.
WD firmware: read and see if this applies -
http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n&pid=21&swid=65
A Mac Pro needs to have the boot drive as GUID. If you are using or have the original boot drive it would have to be GUID. If you happened to merge your system from the G5 onto the Mac Pro's system, you could have problems.
Some G5s are happy with GUID, but native format is of course APL.
Formatting http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306932

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