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blocpartier
Aug 5, 2009, 08:36 AM
I ordered a second hard drive for my powermac g5.Its a 400 gig seagate drive.I power off my machine,unhooked everything and plugged in the drive.I boot up and the drive isnt showing in disk utility.Is it something i did?
promoose
Aug 6, 2009, 01:03 AM
Pull off both connectors, then put them back on, and make sure they are fully seated.
Tesselator
Aug 6, 2009, 01:07 AM
G5 uses SATA or IDE?
If it's IDE make sure you have the master/slave jumpers in the right positions. I guess most systems of a G5 age would want both set to "Cable Select".
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