Booting on a 7200.10

Has anyone successfully booted a PowerMac G5 using a Seagate 7200.10?
I have a Seagate 320GB 7200.10 and it works fine as a second drive, whether setup a SATA 150 or SATA 300. But it will not boot.
I cloned the boot drive to the 7200.10 and it would not boot in an original PowerMac G5 Dual or a Quad. I checked the 7200.10 hard drive with Disk Warrior - no problem. I erased the drive and reinstalled from a Tiger DVD and upgraded with the Combo to 10.4.6. No Boot. I put it on a FirmTek card. No boot.
It shows up under system preferences as bootable but does not display when using the option key at startup. I can do this with any other drive and it boots.
If anyone has gotten a Seagate 7200.10 to boot on a PowerMac, please tell me the jumper settings, which Macintosh and if it was partitioned.
Thank you,
Michael

Hi Guys,
I found the answer to the Seagate 7200.10 not booting.
I was testing the Silicon Image 1.1.0 Mac driver. The SATARAID5 application that allows the drives to be seen by the SiI-3124 host adapter writes a chunk of code to the hard drive in a part of the drive that Disk Utility does not erase. This caused the boot blocks on the drive to no longer work even thought it had been erased by Disk Utility.
The cure?
You have to use Disk Utility with the "Zero" out data option to erase that part of the hard drive (which can take an hour). Or you can use a PC to do a 0 Fill in about 5 seconds. After I used the PC to erase the boot block area, I installed the hard drive back in the PowerMac G5 and installed Tiger on the drive. The 7200.10 now boots.
Moral of the story:
If you use Silicon Images SATARAID5 java app to recognize hard drives on a SiI-3124 host adapter understand you may need to zero out all data on the drive to make it bootable again.
This adds one more reason to why I dislike the Silicon Image SATARAID5 java app and version 1.1.0.
At least I know now
Michael

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