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

Thomas Lane tommylane at verizon.net
Wed Jul 13 03:34:05 PDT 2005


No. Disk Utility will recognize it and you can format it there.


On Jul 13, 2005, at 5:25 AM, keithw wrote:

> 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.
>>


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