> On Mar 5, 2016, at 5:43 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> When I boot off DVD, the iMac won't recognise this disk -
>     diskutil shows the name, but says it is 0 bytes and 
>       won't allow format (greyed out).

Are you looking at the disk itself in Disk utility or the volume? It could 
simply be unpartitioned, and so you have to do that, but you only get that 
option if you select the disk, not the volume. 

It could also be a DOA disk…your iMac should have no problems with a SATA III 
drive.

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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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