Newly installed Hard Drives not recognized on Destop Power Mac G5

I am trying to replace the old internal Hard drive (160GB) on my desktop Power Mac G5 with a 320 GB and an additional 500 GB internal Hard drives. I installed them both with no problems, but when I got to install the OS (10.4.6) the new hard drives do not show as options for install. I looked in Disk Utility as well but just shows the CD/DVD drive with the OS disk.
advice?

I believe so, The drives are:
- Western Digital Caviar 500GB Serial ATA  7200/32MB/SATA-6G
and
- Western Digital Caviar 320GB SATA-3G  7200/16MB/SATA-6G
How do I know if they "need a jumper on pins 5&6 to slow them to SATA 1 speeds."
Thanks

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