Have new internal drive on G5, doesn't mount

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bromilius

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Bought/installed a new Seagate 500 GB internal drive for the dual G5 desktop. Mac OS doesn't see the drive nor does it come up "untitled" (doesn't mount, nor does it come up in System Profiler). Connectors/power plugs work as I replugged the upper drive in the lower bay and the system booted up fine. What gives? Did I miss a step somewhere?

A novice ...
 
'... What gives? Did I miss a step somewhere?', did you open (run, launch) 'Disk Utility' ('/Applications/Utilities/' folder), select the new drive - in the left side column, and format it via the 'Erase' tab's panel?
 
barhar said:
'... What gives? Did I miss a step somewhere?', did you open (run, launch) 'Disk Utility' ('/Applications/Utilities/' folder), select the new drive - in the left side column, and format it via the 'Erase' tab's panel?
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It should still come in system profiler even if it isn't formatted.

I would check the jumper settings, SATA drives still have them. Make sure they are right.

Can you hear the second drive spin up?
 
System Profiler and Disk Utility do not see the drive (I tried that already) HateEternal may be onto something with the jumpers. I did notice a jumper on the original internal drive that came with the Mac but did not see any on the new internal drive.

How do you find out if I need a jumper for this new drive? and where would you find the settings? I didn't see anything on the Seagate website.
 
'How do you find out if I need a jumper for this new drive?' - if you are adding a hard disk drive to the second drive bay, it needs to be set to 'slave'.

'... and where would you find the settings? I didn't see anything on the Seagate website.' - Seagate.
 
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