SATA Hard drive Formatting in PowerMac G5??

[EHUnlucky7x9@ao]

I got an SATA HD for my 1.6 G5.... I installed it... took a couple times before the G5 recognized it. ( I had to change the jumper on the back).

Now the disk is shown on the desktop... but i can't reformat it. It works, but I can't format it. The SATA ran in RAID 0... but I have no clue what that is. I open the HD on the desktop and it shows a bunch of Windows NT files, but I want them to be removed. Disk Utility isn't helping...can anyone help me??

 

[cb911]

so - you got this new HD and you've now got 2 internal HD's? and you want to set them up as RAID 0? i think you'd have to format both drives and setup your RAID again... i woudn't think that you could just format 1 drive independantly while using RAID 0.

but then again, it's just a guess. i've never used raid.

 

[Aramis]

I got an SATA HD for my 1.6 G5.... I installed it... took a couple times before the G5 recognized it. ( I had to change the jumper on the back).

Now the disk is shown on the desktop... but i can't reformat it. It works, but I can't format it. The SATA ran in RAID 0... but I have no clue what that is. I open the HD on the desktop and it shows a bunch of Windows NT files, but I want them to be removed. Disk Utility isn't helping...can anyone help me??

I think you are asking how to format your new HD more so than how to setup Raid 0 - correct? I would first check the jumper settings again. Do you have the user manual? If not, I would look online @ the manufacturers website to ensure you have the proper jumper settings for your setup.

Also, if the HD was originally in a RAID array, I would make sure the HD is not bad.

Here's a good link that explains RAID 0.