What was required was that the 120 gig WD drive be FORMATTED. I did that and all went well. When the WD drive was in the FireWire case all by itself it was jumpered as Single.
When I put it into the iMac I jumpered it as Master because it shared cable with the DVD-ROM drive which is jumpered as the Slave. This was wrong. I restored it to Single in the iMac. Once I pulled the jumper and formatted the WD it works perfectly. I got advice about installing big ATA hard drives into iMacs from a more knowlegeable iMac user on the Discussions forum on the Apple Support website joining in on an on-going thread started by someone who put a 160-gig drive into his iMac.. M ---------- >From: Al Poulin > Can it be that the new drive was not formatted to accept OS 9 drivers? If > so, it may also be that the only way out is to start over. But then, why > would it work when in the FireWire case? I'm guessing, so I hope a few > experts chime in here. > > -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
