New hard drive won't install

I am trying to install a harddrive into the second bay of my 2005 Power Mac G5.
The drive I'm installing is a Western Digital Caviar black 2TB. It is and SATA drive and the same one has installed successfully on my newer G5 tower.
I plug the drive in, start up the computer - and it doesn't show up. The computer can't find the drive, not even through the disc utility.
I know the bay works since it held a smaller, older drive before that also shows up if I put it back.
Is the drive too new or large for this older computer to recognize it? I'm definitely at my wits end.....

G5s will take up to 2.2 TB drives no problem, I think you need a Jumper on Pins 5&6 to slow it ti SATA 1 speeds.
http://www.fatwallet.com/static/attachments/12634_western_digital_sata_jumpers.j pg

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