Formatting a seagate barracuda ata IV for mac?

I have a couple of 20 GB seagate barracuda ata IV st320011a hard drives that I pulled out of an old sun server that was running sunOS 4.x solaris. Is there an easy way to erase and format them for Macs. I would like to use them as slaves on a couple of old G4s. If I set the jumper to the slave position and install it correctly the system profiler recognizes that it's there but it doesn't show up on the desktop. I've also tried using disk warrior and tech tool. Even went as far as to set it as master and threw an OS9 install disk in to try an overwrite. Any ideas would be appreciated.
mini, g4, g5, imac, xserv Mac OS X (10.4.9)
mini, g4, g5, imac, xserv Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Welcome to the Discussions.
The drives will show up on the desktop after you format them with Disk Utility.
Select "Mac OS Extended (journaled)" as the format type, and if you plan to use OS 9 at all, make sure that the option to install OS 9 drivers is checked (the drivers can't be added later, except by reformatting the drive with the option checked).

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Hi The hatter
How are you guys?
Thanx for your input - ya know something tells me I if I hadn't brought up the issue of the jumper assigments on the 2 internal HD's, I wonder if this does matter as to why to the newest 2nd internal HD that I just installed isn't recognized?
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