Seagate 500 gig 7200.10 not recognized

I installed a seagate 500 gig 7200.10 SATA drive into my G5. On boot-up it says the drive is not supported. I'm running OS 10.4.8. It gave me three options 1. initialize 2. Ignore 3. eject. Checking the system profile, the drive is there. Here is the system profile information of my original HD:
Maxtor 6Y160M0:
Capacity: 152.67 GB
Model: Maxtor 6Y160M0
Revision: YAR51HW0
Serial Number: Y45606FE
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk1
Protocol: ata
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Serial-ATA
Bay Name: "A (upper)"
OS9 Drivers: No
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Volumes:
Macintosh HD:
Capacity: 152.54 GB
Available: 79.29 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk1s3
Mount Point: /
AND here is the profile of the seagate:
ST3500630AS:
Capacity: 465.76 GB
Model: ST3500630AS
Revision: 3.AAE
Serial Number: 5QG0A4X9
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Protocol: ata
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Serial-ATA
Bay Name: "B (lower)"
OS9 Drivers: No
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Do I initialize or is this drive not supported. Is there a way to maunt this drive? I was under the impression from all the forums I've visited, that this drive was not a problem. Even Seagate's presales said that it would work.
Thanks for any information you guys have.

"Do I initialize or is this drive not supported."
Yes. Naturally you'd need to format/initialize the drive before you can use it.

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If you took some effort in reading this:
http://www.cdrinfo.com/Forum/tm.asp?m=84345&mpage=15??
you would have known already.
Well, you always have people who know better, and ofcourse there are always people who know better....
(euh, never mind, hihi)
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Vasdiak has an ide error-notification.
I didn't.
In my case it was not recognized with the ND6500 connected and the 2nd controller dissapeared in bios and OS.
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This (and reading lot's of info on the web) got me thinking.
In case of NEC equipment(and maybe other brands as well) basically you have to look for a real OEM drives, which are configured as Master/Slave
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Problem is that the NEC, Toshiba and many others do NOT sell (real)OEM-parts to the end-users, even though many retailers believe they do.
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