[G4] Re: Help with Installing a Seagate SATA drive on a G4 AGP

[Richard M. Kriss]

Brian,

I did a restart and then opened the System Profiler and the Disk Utility and
there was no sign of the new Seagate SATA drive. The disk and instructions
that came with the SYBA PCI Serial ATA Host Controller Card said NOTHING
about Macintosh and I have no idea how to install the drivers that must be
required. 

Looks like the SYBA card will go back to Fry's and I refuse to pay $80 for a
Mac card that looks just like the PC card.

I can buy a new old style drive for the price of the rip off card.

It was a good idea that did not work!  Anybody been able to get a PC PCI
Serial ATA controller card to work on a Mac?

Good think I did not erase the old WD 40 GB hard drive.  It will go back in
the G4 on Wednesday

Dick


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B G briang113 at pacbell.net
Tue Jul 12 12:59:40 PDT 2005
 [G4] Help with Installing a Seagate SATA drive on a G4 AGP

You didn't state what steps you took beside turning on the computer.

So first I would run System Profiler and make sure the SATA card is
being recognized, if it is try Disk Utilities and format the drive.

If the card does not show up in the profiler reinstall the drivers
also remove and reseat the card to make sure it is all the way in the
slot, if the card is present but there is no drive, double check your
connections to the drive.

Brian