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

[keithw]

Ron Steinke wrote:

> On 12 Jul, 2005, at 18:53, Richard M. Kriss wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> Just a small question here - Did you try to use DiskUtility to find the 
> new drive?
> 
> It is possible that the new drive is not formatted as a Mac drive and 
> won't show on the desk top until it is formatted.
> 
> My $.02 worth - for what it's worth.

Doesn't a drive have to show up on the desktop in order to be able to 
select what drive you want to format?

keith whaley