"Has the drive been formatted already? Does it show up in disk utility?"
Yes, It's been formatted by disk Utility and shows up when connected to the native USB1 port on the Quicksilver and also when connected to a cheap USB 1 hub. The new PCI card is a USB 2.1? However, originally I think the drive shipped as a Fat 32? which I erased because I tried to CCC a bootable system on it. That didn't work but I did get a successful back up. I was running OS X 10.3.9 at the time and now I'm on Tiger 10.4.11
Name : Iomega E xternal HD Media Type : Disk Disk Identifier : disk1 Media Name : Iomega E xternal HD Media Media Type : Generic Connection Bus : USB IO Content : Apple_partition_scheme Writable : Yes Ejectable : Yes Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed : Yes Location : External Total Capacity : 931.5 GB (1,000,204,886,016 Bytes) S.M.A.R.T. status : Not Supported Disk Number : 1 Partition Number : 0 The partitions are @ 310 gigs each x 3 thanks for you help -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list