Install an OS from a real retail disc. The iMac installation discs install 
various iMac specific items and may or may not work properly with a 7500. 
I've heard of and seen all kinds of odd problems using the wrong machine discs.

Scott Holder

At 08:42 AM 7/16/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>I've just bought Cheetah 18.2 gb, 10,000 rpm drive from E-bay connected to 
>PM7500 via SCSI PCI card. I have installed 9.1 with IE 5.0 from i macs 
>installation disk. Everytime I click on the IE icon. The drive makes 
>swirling sound (louder than usual noise) and keep doing it until I force 
>it quits (by turning off the computer). When I reboot, the drive booting 
>all extensions until the starting drive icon appears, then it continues 
>swirling sound like no ending loop.  SCSi prove and Apple system profiler 
>see it connected.   Is there any suggestion I should try to solve this 
>problem before I return the drive to owner?
>
>Thanks



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