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Originally Posted by dnanian
Are you sure the drive itself isn't one of the large drives that are known to have trouble with the G5's SATA controller?
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Holy crap. You're absolutely right. I had no clue there are SATA hard drives out there that are outright incompatible.
The 2nd internal HD is a brand new one I just installed, a 400gb Western Digital WD4000KD. And looky here:
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/...5problems.html
Geez. Guess I'm sending this thing back. At least now I know to check for HD compatibility, and there's this handy database here:
http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/drived....drivedb.lasso
Thanks Dave!