G5 not recognize sata 2.0 internal hard drive

Thanks Hatter. Yep I mistyped... too much going on in one day after 3 days of frustration. The desktop is a Mac G5 not the intel chip Mac Pro. I have a laptop with an intell chip (MacBook Pro which I used to format the drive attached by USB externally). I read the links to the Black Caviar HD which is what I have. I did partition to APM and not GUID. Still the drive is not recognized in the G5 internal HD slot...but the G5 does recognize it as an external drive using USB. Is the partition too large for the G5 internal mother board.... or is there some setting that I need to reset on the G5????

Bill

Ah, Hatter, my problem is NOT with the external enclosure or connedtion device.... it works well and the drive is recognized by by Power Mac G5 and my intel Mac Book Pro. My problem is that the Western Caviar HD is not recognized when I put it in the INTERNAL HD slot of the Power Mac G5 so that I can reinstall my start up disk on it, since the Seagate 500 GB HD failed or sporadically boots the Power Mac G5.

The only information I can get on the Power MAC G5 is as follows from the system profiler of my OS Leopard start up DVD:

Model Name: Power Mac G5

Model ID: Power Mac 7.3

Processor Name: PowerPC G5 (3.0)

Processor Speed: 2.5 GH

CPU's: 2

L3 Cache (per CPU): 512

Ram: 6 GB

Bus Speed: 1.25 GH

Boot Rom Version 5.1.8f7

Seriel No.: G8****PP

Is this any help? Again is there a setting I can change on the Power Mac G5 that will enable it to recognize the Western Digital Caviar 2.0 TB Hard Drive??

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Sigh the saga continues. I formated it GUID , Two 1 TB partions. The G5 did not recognize it. Then I formated in three partitions under 1 TB in APM but still not recognized in the G5 internal slot. The drive is ok, because it is recognized by both the G5 and my intell MacBook Pro as an external drive.

Any more ideas? Or do I have to buy a HD and hope it works when I put in the the G5?

Thanks for the advice. I've played for three weeks now and this isn't getting better.....

Bill

Again, I have spend several weeks working on the hard drive issue. Neither the old hard drive nor the new replacement are recognized by the internal slot. Both are recognized as external harddrives.

I had a second hard drive, Hitatchi, that I used Super Duper to clone the old Seagate. It now seems to work. I used Tech Tool Pro 6 to clean up the volume as much as I could. The disk utility still finds some issues on SUID but I guess they are not the cause from other posts I have read concerning disk permissions.

I reset the PRAM and SMU.

I am reluctant to buy a third hard drive if the internal board does not recognize the hard disk. I have run the tests in Tech Tool Pro 6 but nothing is indicated as a problem.

Does anyone have a clue what is going on regarding hard drives and the Power Mac G5??

PS I used the external connection to do all the hard drive tests and optimization of the old Seagate 500 GB HD. It seems to be ok and working fine. The super duper clone was a pain because the program would frequently hang even though I was not using the power mac G5 to externally connect the two. I used my Mac Book Pro to connect the external Seagate 500 HD to the Power mac G5 Hitatchi in Target mode. It was a long drawn out process but it seems to have worked. I just don't know if the Power Mac G5 is stable enough to spend more money on still another hard drive.

I had two hard drives: Seagate 500 and a Hitachi 750. The Seagate was the boot drive and seemed to be giving me problems so I changed it out of the lower slot. I tried the Hitachi in the lower slot and it worked there as well as in the upper slot. I don't think the wiring is the problem,but....

I tried the WD 2.0 GB in both slots and neither would recognize it even though it was recognized as an external drive on a USB 2 connection. It is a WD Caviar Black SATA 32 MB Mo Cache 7200 rpm/Tr/min WDBAAZ0020HNC -NRSN.

I could jumper the drive, but have no idea which jumper setting to use, since the WD support pages I read when I installed the drive the first time did not indicate in any jumper setting that it was necessary for a power mac G5....

I'll check again.

Thanks, hatter, the jumper was the issue. I had checked the WD website and it was conflicting but the post you sited showed the jumper setting and I got a jumper and tried it. NOW it is recognized.

BUT, sheesh I hate this part, the Power Mac seems to corrupt the hard disk every time I have tried to reinstall. During the reinstall or the time machine update the Power Mac G5 crashes after a couple hours. I took it all apart, cleaned out the dust and do not see any problems with the liquid cooling system. I think this (crashing unexpectedly) was the real problem and not the hard drive I replaced. What could cause the G5 to start working for a while and then cause a crash, other than the cooling system? Or is there something with the cooling system I haven't been able to detect? I opened the case and had fans blowing on the machine and it still crashed.

I have spend hours cleaning and trying to reformat. It is such beautiful machine I hate to trash it.

Bill

I could have done this but I have not been able to get Leopard installed again on any harddrive. I've had to erase and clean the hard drive each time before I attempt another installation. The installation has only once completed but crashed when I tried to update from time machine. Then I had to start all over again.

Any idea how to log this from the install disk when I'm trying to install Leopard??