Will seagate hard drives work in a mac

hey guys ive just tried to install max osx 10.4 in am imac and it installs ok but then when the mac reboots it shows the flashing question mark for some reason
could it be the seagate hard drive im useing isnt compatable as if i put the original maxtor drive in the imac boots straight away any ideas
by the way its an imac slot loader with a 500mhz pro and 1gig of ram
thanks for any help

Don't want to take over +Apple Imac G3+ 's topic, but I suppose this may be related and of interest.
Didn't you previously startup from the optical drive with that same Mac OS X installation disk, to install the OS on you new drive?
You could try the 10.1 disk as a startup test, but since you have 10.4 installed, you should not do anything with it once it starts up (except shutdown).
Can you kindly give me step by step instructions for booting up from disk.
The three methods for starting from the optical drive are:
Startup or restart with the C key held down.
Startup or restart and hold down the Option key. This will give you Startup Manager. If a bootable disk is in the optical drive, select it and continue.
Startup normally. Open System Preferences Startup pane. Select the disk in the optical drive and click Restart.
The drive itself seems to be functioning properly. Did you mean I should be able to boot up from the disk to insure the drive is working 100% ?
I was just saying that if your hard drive is working and you are able to boot from the CDROM drive, then the jumper setting you are using is fine. If the CDROM is working, but not able to boot, it could be caused by the jumper setting. But after I wrote that, I realized you must have already booted from the optical drive before to do the OS installation.

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