Installed new hard disk to power mac g4

hi
i have just installed a new hdd to a power mac g4, when i go to install the os 9 9.2.1 it won't see the hard disk if i install a later os like os x it see it.
any ideas?

Hello Keiron and Don,
Have just recently had a problem similar enough that relating it might help.
First, I always fit the Seagate ST380013A 80GB ATA-133 HD. I've had excellent experience with about a dozen of them. I've never used the cable select setting...I forget when you're supposed to, but I've used them in ones and twos and threes and never used aught but master and slave. I don't think that'a the problem unless the QS is different from earlier Macs.
Subject Mac is a dual-processor Sawtooth. Never had any trouble, except that I partitioned the HD in three. Installed Tiger. No problem, except that I didn't like it. Installed Panther. No problem. Went to install OS9. Wouldn't install, so I assume I didn't install OS9 drivers. No problem, so I installed a second Panther without all the languages and voice recognition. Worked great. Installed OS 9 on separate drive. Worked great. Installed OEM Geforce 3 video card in order to see Google maps. No problem. Snatched the OEM Geforce 3 for the DA, and installed a (cheap)(flashed?) Geforce 3 from a self-described Mac expert. Problem. No boot. No video. No screen. No nothin'. Reset PRAM on advice of self-described expert. No nothin'. Replaced bogus Geforce 3 with real thing. Mac monitor (19" Radius) lights up, gives me the spinning wheel, and then the 'nada' symbol. Replaced the tripartite OSX drive with a known-good OS9. Flashing question mark. Wonderful. Tried known-good OSX. Spinning wheel and nada. Better yet.
Booted from an OS9 CD. Booted fine. Didn't see any drives. Now I get a little hazy. What I did was look at the startup disk folder and the drive setup folder on the OS9 CD. First nothing. Then three or four drives (one of which was a phantom) all greyed out. Then finally an opportunity to select a startup drive. Selected it. Wouldn't restart. Wouldn't shut down. Pulled the plug. Booted again from the CD. Now I could see the drives in drive setup. Somewhere in here I managed to verify a disk. Restarted. Mac restarted, but from the CD. Pulled the plug. Restarted while pushing the eject button on the DVD/CD player. CD ejected. Restarted - after a while - to the OS 9 drive. Checked the startup drive in the control panel. Nothing selected. Reselected the startup drive. Restarted promptly, or at least as promptly as it ever does. Couldn't select any resolution but 640 x 480 (I think) at 60 hz. Installed known-good OSX Panther drive (both drives on separate busses of an Acard-133 controller card and jumpered master - though I don't think it matters) and selected OSX as startup. Restarted, and has continued to work without problem. I can also select the full spectrum of resolutions for the Geforce 3, but only from OSX.
As I say, this is probably an imperfect recounting. I suspect the resetting of the PRAM made it hard to see the drives. Does the controller card figure, or the Geforce 3? Did the bogus Geforce 3 card leave a legacy? Where did the phantom drive come from? Where did it go?
Point I'm suggesting is that I'd try poking aroung with the OS9 install CD utilities and see if that would help. The extraneous detail is provided in case someone recognises the pattern and can make some sense of it. To provide the latest chapter, the Sawtooth continues to work without problem and as well as it ever did. The maps are awesome.
HTH ..... Jon

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