Trouble booting from internal SCSI on a Quicksilver

Hello,
I have a Quicksilver G4 that came from factory with IDE and OS 9 only. I added an Adaptec 29160 PCI card and a Seagate U160 LVD SCSI drive.
I added everything, then booted the Panther install CD's. The installer initially did not see the drive, but I just had to go to Utilities and format the new drive (I used Mac OS extended - Journaled filesystem). The install went fine on SCSI, then the computer rebooted.
After reboot it loaded up into OS 9, and wont see the SCSI disk.
Is the Adaptec driver missing in my OS 9? Any ideas what I should do here? Haven't tried it yet, but I will disconnect IDE and see if it boots to SCSI, I have a feeling it will.
-John

found the URL by chance
http://adaptec-tic.adaptec.com/cgi-bin/adaptectic.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=3549&p_created=1008846164&p_sid=phPd-Bbi &p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MjMmcF9wcm9 kcz0wJnBfY2F0cz0wJnBfcHY9JnBfY3Y9JnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9YW5zd2Vycy5zZWFyY2hfbmwmcF9 wYWdlPTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1vcGVuIGZpcm13YXJl&p_li=&ptopview=1
This DOES WORK!

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    Try booting with the ALT key held down. Is your internal drive an option here? Choose it, then give the computer 5~10 minutes to boot.
    If that doesn't work, try holding the Shift key and starting up in Safe Mode, which will take 5~10 minutes.
    Do you have your OS X install discs for 10.5?
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