[G4] New Hard Drive

[Daniel Brieck Jr.]

Kevin,
Did you go in to Applications/Utilities/  and format the drive with  
the Disk Utility? You should do that first before trying to use the  
drive.


Daniel J. Brieck Jr.

On Jan 12, 2006, at 8:20 AM, BROADWAY33 at aol.com wrote:

> Need help installing new Seagate ....Ultra ATA 120 Gig Hard  
> Drive...I installed as master hard drive in my G4 Mirror Door unit,  
> leaving the factory setting jumper at cable select mode...
>
> The G4 will not recognize the hard drive as a location to install OSX.
>
> It shows up in the list of items when I go to "about this  
> Mac"....it registers as a # 0 drive...whereas my 60 Gig HD with the  
> OSX system installed, registers as # 1 drive
>
> I tried installing ONLY the new drive with the OSX disk (with  
> jumper set at M ASTER mode)to no avail.......are there settings I  
> need to adjust to get this drive to register as a known location to  
> install OSX and use as my primary drive, with the 60 Gig being used  
> as the slave.
>
> Thank you all for your time.
>
> Kevin