New Serial - ATA Hard Drive Partitioned with OS 10.5.4 and OS 10.3.9

Dear forum,
I'm looking at this Internal Hard Drive - 609480 Hitachi T7K500 320GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 16MB Cache - OEM - I need to obtain the 4 guide screws before I fit it in the lower bay of my G5. Is this hard drive approved by Apple?
I need to verify with the forum that if I partition the new 320GB HD in two (2 x 160 GB partitions) and run OS 10.3.9 Classic environment on one partition and 10.5.4 on the other partition that this will present no technical problems for my G5 Dual Processor computer.

There should have been screws already in your G5.
I would not mix Leopard and Panther on the same drive. Even Tiger used a different partition table than Leopard now does. Could run Panther from 2nd drive or FW800 as an option.
Best drive I have come across for now:
http://www.barefeats.com/harper14.html
Sells for $79 @ www.macsales.com and lower than Newegg
As long as it is a bare or white box drive it should be fine (sometimes Dell and HP get customized drives that are more system specific though usually not a problem).

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