On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:28:50 +0000, ian deshays wrote:

When I plug it via the FireWire socket System Profiler doesn't show
anything. When I plug it via the USB socket it shows up but its not
mounted on the desktop & i can't save things to it.

I've used a Maxtor drive on someone else's G4 but it didn't need a
driver installed. Have you run Disk Utility and, if necessary,
initialised the drive?

Brilliant! That worked. I had to initialise it first. Everything work fine now.
Thanks
Ian


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