Why won't a 2TB W.D. Black Drive Work in my G5 Power Mac?

Why won't a 2TB W.D. Black Drive Work in my G5 Power Mac? 
It's a  Western Digital 2 TB Caviar Black SATA III    WD2002FAE
My G5 Power Mac can not "see" this new drive.   As a test, I installed this drive in my Intel Mac Pro and it works perfectly.
On the back of the drive their Pins where one can install a jumper.  Western Digital provided no jumpers.
Suggestions appreciated.

It's the SATA speed, G5's only deal with Sata I/1.5GB/s, try a jumper on pins 5 & 6 to slow it down... and if you made it GUID on the Mac Pro the G5 won't see it on the Desktop, but Disk Utility might see it & let you Partition it APM.
But I still don't know if the SATA 6.0Gb/s drive will slow to only SATA2, or what, at one time OWC had a warning that the 64MB Caxhe WD models wouldn't work on G5s, but I no longer find that...
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/WD2002FAEX/
This drive is SATA 6G (3G/1.5G Compatible) ...
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Hitachi/0F12115/
But may depend on the Mac's HW/SW to detect/tell the drive what speed it can handle.

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