Self installed hard disks in Miglia DualDisk fail to mount

Hi Guys!
Just bought the Miglia dualdisk casing (www.miglia.com) (with no hard disks inside) and decide to put 2 harddisks myself and construct my own raid.
specs for the Miglia casing is:
Converter: 2* FireWire 800/IEEE 1394b ports (9 pins)
ATA Interface: Miglia Catalyst 912 (chipset: OXFW 912)
Hard Drives: self installed (both disk are of different capacity and have data in them. (they are linked with IDE connector)
Rotational Speed: 2*7200 rpm
In short when i power it up, the harddisks spin, the fan turns, but no mounting of the disks onto my desktop.
Thus the folowiing questions:
a) Does it matter that both HD are of the same capacity? cos the two of them arent.
Is it true that different capacities will mount two individual harddisks icons while one icon of combined capacities will be mounted if both are of the same capacity?
b)Does it matter which drive is a master or slave? in this case, i set the drive connected to the ATA Interface: Miglia Catalyst 912 (chipset: OXFW 912) as the Slave and the other drive as the master.
c) Both hard disks are IBM and Hitachi deskstar . i noticed that at the jumper settings, eg, for master: there are two ways of setting the jumper. it states 16 head or 15 head. what does that mean? how do i know if my hard disk is 15 or 16. In this case i tried setting the jumpers base on 16 head.
I am using allegro FW800 PCI Adaptor card, running with 10.2.8 or 10.4 (i tried both OSXs but both doesnt mount the harddisks too).
i am using powermac quicksliver (tink is 2002 - the one with two cd/ superdrive bays . not the mirror one), dual processor at 1ghz, bus speed 133 MHZ.
Can anyone enlighten me on this?
Thanks so much for your time!
Ian

hmm...right now i just have two different capacities HD with mac data in them. I thought they will show up as 2 diff HD icons or folders.
so it is true that they have to be of the same capacities?
i will have to buy two new similiar capacities HD and format them and try again.
I cant format the two HD i have as they contain data.

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