PCI card question on Mac Pro

I was very easily able to install a PCI-Express card ...
however, I have two eSATA drives plugged into it now, and neither one is being recognized by OS 10.5.1 - nothing is showing up anywhere in the system, as far as can tell... and certainly not mounting (not in disk util either).
is there something else I need to do? a driver or something? (I never needed to do that on the tiger G5).
also I don't seem to be able to install an older full-size PCI card at all - it just won't fit in the slots! am I doing something wrong?
w

You want a list....
http://eshop.macsales.com/search/PCIExpressSATA
http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/reviews.html
And check out the articles
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/IDE.html
For a card to work, it has to have Mac firmware for one, along with a driver. Which is why a PC card won't. Sonnet and others do have cards that support Mac, Linux, Windows.
Whenever OS X is updated to a new version, MacIntouch will compile a list from reader feedback/input of what works, needs updated drivers and firmware, as most OS updates do tend to break older cards.
As I said above, FirmTek, Highpoint, Sonnet, are ones I use. Also, check out
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