Pb installing Panther on 500GB Seagate SATA/300

I'm trying to install a 500GB Seagate SATA/300 to replace my original 250 GB Maxtor which is fried. I have a 2005 PowerMac G5. I put the drive in the top bay. I went straight to install but the Seagate drive would not show up. Following Apple's instructions (article 303220), I used Disk Utility to erase, then partition the drive using Mac OS extended, one partition. But I keep getting the icon of the drive with the red exclamation point. I've read in other forums that perhaps a 2005 PowerMac G5 cannot handle drives larger than 400GB.
Any thoughts? thanks!

Hi-
Welcome to Discussions!
Booted from the OS install disk, in Disk Utility, you were able to see the drive before formatting? After formatting, the drive isn't available for OS installation?
Did you lock the drive? Password protect? What is the formatted capacity (according to Disk Utility?
Your G5 will support as large a drive as you an purchase.......

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