Wrong drive appears in Target mode

Hey guys. I know this is probably something very simple, but I'm trying to restore the drive on my G4. I've previously carbon copied my drive to an extra drive in my G5, as I regularly get weird cache problems on my G4. Now that it's happened again, I want to Carbon copy back from the G5 to the G4, but when I connect in target mode with firewire, I cannot find the primary drive on the G4, only some secondary drive which helps me nothing
Is it as simple as switching the actual harddrives around/changing the jumpers on the actual harddrives; or is there some setting somewhere that I'm missing?

Welcome to the Discussions.
"I regularly get weird cache problems on my G4"
That might be a failing processor. There are Apple Hardware Test disk images here. http://www.info.apple.com/support/aht.html

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