SSD In iMac G4 not recognized I recently bought an SSD and an IDE to SATA adapter. I've installed these into my iMac G4 (it's the 20" 1.25GHz model) neither the Leopard installer or Disk Utility will recognize it. 

The SSD is 
http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX49961

And the adapter is http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX30129

I've heard that some iMacs will only work with SATA II, but I've also heard that this doesn't matter if using an adapter.

Just wondering where I should start troubleshooting. Is there anything obvious wrong with these two pieces of hardware?

Thanks!
Make sure your SSD is working by connecting it to different computer through SATA or SATA to USB adapter.
Make sure your PATA adapter is working by connecting it to different computer. Also try different drive with it.
Try to buy another adapter with another chip, prefer unidirectional one.


There a whole lot of incompatibilities with them
This one for example is working fine in my FW IDE enclosure with TI chip and not in the FW enclosure with some different chip. Go figure!