>there are three SCSI ports on the back of the box... one near the
>bottom left corner (facing the back of the box), and two in the middle
>vertically... the two in the middle are labeled with a big "0"
>and "1"... i plugged the drives into "0", figuring it was scsi bus 0...
>maybe i should plug them into the unlabeled one?

Yes, that's it.