I recently purchased a Seagate Backup Plus Slim portable hardrive. Despite Seagate claiming the product is compatible with OS X 10.5 I cannot get the installer to launch. Has anyone encountered the same issue and found a viable solution?

I recently purchased a Seagate Backup Plus Slim portable hardrive. Despite Seagate claiming the product is compatible with OS X 10.5 I cannot get the installer to launch. Has anyone encountered the same issue and found a viable solution?

A Gigaware 9pin to 4pin fw cable solved my issue. The Rocketfish fw cable was crap. And that thing cost me $24.99 from Best Buy. Getting my money back for sure.

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