G5 (PPC, 10.4.8) keeps hanging on initial backup

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Originally Posted by dnanian

Are you sure the drive itself isn't one of the large drives that are known to have trouble with the G5's SATA controller?

Holy crap. You're absolutely right. I had no clue there are SATA hard drives out there that are outright incompatible.

The 2nd internal HD is a brand new one I just installed, a 400gb Western Digital WD4000KD. And looky here:
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/...5problems.html

Geez. Guess I'm sending this thing back. At least now I know to check for HD compatibility, and there's this handy database here:
http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/drived....drivedb.lasso

Thanks Dave!