During one of my very short, intermittent and unreliable uptimes,(gotta love Comcast) I took a look at the specs and like stuff and have to agree with you.
There should be no problem with installing that drive, in that machine, as long as all the instructions are followed.
I was going to suggest the Maxtor site but you had already gone there.
It is possible, but unlikely, that the drive is actually partially DOA. Obviously it spins up, it's seen in the system profiler, but is not recognised for what it should be and has a capacity of zero.
My gut reaction here is to return that one and try again with another.
Sorry, best I can do right now
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I'm trying to install a second SATA drive HD on a 2-processor 1.8 GHz G5 (OS X 10.4.9). The problem
is that once installed, the Disk Utility thinks that the drive has a capacity of 0 GB and
therefore won't let me format, erase, partition etc. Anybody know if this means that (a)
I've done something wrong or (b) the disk is defective?
The drive in question is a Maxtor DiamondMax10 Internal 250GB Hard Drive
(Serial ATA-150, 7,200 RPM, 16MB - MPN: 6L250S0), which should fit the specs of the Mac.
Strangely, when I look at the drive using the system profiler, it's visible, but the profiler thinks that the drive is a "Maxtor Sabre"
I've removed the drive from the bay and reinstalled it - nothing seems to be wrong with the way
the cables are attached. Also, the Seagate/Maxtor site says that there shouldn't be any issues
with adjusting jumper pins.

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