Google for
drive setup resedit
and you'll find out how to hack Apple's drive setup software or downloads for
already hacked versions.
The reason for this is Apple wanted to force people to only buy hard drives
from Apple, so they paid drive manufacturers to insert things into the drive
firmware like the words APPLE COMPUTER at specific locations.
Drive Setup looks for that info and if it doesn't find it, it will not format
the drive.
There are some older versions which don't have that limitation, but their
driver is not as good as the later versions.
Another possibility is the partition setup on a Mac formatted drive can get
screwed up to the point where no software on a Mac can do anything with it.
I've experienced that myself, the only cure was low level formatting the drives
with a SCSI controller in a PC.
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