Without any success, I cannot get my hard drive to work in disk utilities. I am able to see the disk in the upper left hand column, but when trying to initiliaze the software always reads operation not supported. Any ideas?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11), iMac G5 20"
You probably have too new a hard disk. Contact the hard disk manufacturer and ask what jumper setting is needed to drop to 1.5 Gbps SATA speed.
Either that, or return the disk, and go to http://www.macsales.com/
They can be sure to equip you with a proper hard disk.
Note formatting is key as well:
Very important to get this resolved before any grace period runs out - as you may not be able to return the drive without paying a restocking fee.
It may be a bad drive or as another poster said wrong for your system. In that case if the manufacturer cant set it working on the first call - it make take being upset to get to an engineer you can tell you the problem.
(had it happen with a removable backup mirror drive that was okay for every mac but the one I had at the time - and I bought it from the apple store!)
Cannot get brand new hard drive to work. Disk utility states operation not supported when I try to erase or partition?
