It's a powermac G5 ( the big metal one ) and the firewire drive is a Maxtor 160gig drive formatted for Mac.
It works on 2 other G4's I have here but not the G5 ..
ALL the Macs are running OSX Panther with updates.
Thanks
Well, tonight I'm having trouble with a new Mac G5. It seems every time I plug in the firewire hard drive I get the screen that says " This macintosh needs to shut down.... "
When I restart it with the drive plugged in, it won't let me look at the drives. I plug it into a G4 and it works...
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