new internal HD not showing up

[DeltaMac]

An SATA drive has a completely different set of connectors, and cannot connect to a IDE bus. You would already know if you have an SATA drive, as you wouldn't have been able to attach the IDE cable.

[Kees Buijs]

Originally Posted by catwomannj

I was attaching the external enclosure to a G4 Mac. I also had my husband attach it to his Windows laptop. His computer saw the drive, but that's all of course since it is unformatted. I did put it back into the iBook, but still nothing.

I've had enough of this today, will contact OWC tech support tomorrow.

It did occur to me that possibly they had shipped me an SATA instead of an IDE/ATA drive. I went to the Seagate website, but could not find a way to verify which it is by the various model #'s etc.

They have a completely different layout.


IDE (but only for laptops)

http://www.kb-computer.com/images/wd/wd800beve.jpg


SATA (identical for laptops and desktops).

http://www.kb-computer.com/images/wd/wd3200bevt.jpg


Now you can see the difference (i hope).


Good luck, Kees