Those Seagates do draw a lot of current. I have some Hawk series drives that 
won't startup in several of my enclosures because they draw too much starting 
current. Unfortunately, even if you delay startup, the supply may not be able 
to handle the requirements. My Q700 can't start one, even after the system is 
booted. The green light just stays on solid, but the spindle motor never 
starts.

Apparently, the power supplies in the PowerPC machines are a bit heftier, 
though. I have a 2Gb Hawk mounted in the drive bay of a 7100 (running 
mkLinux), and it starts just fine.

I would suggest an actual hard disk enclosure. Some CD-ROM enclosures don't 
have enough juice to start a Barracuda or Hawk. BTW - you can boot with no 
devices internal to the machine. I've booted with no floppy/hard disk using an 
external drive. Great for debugging memory issues.

Seth Henry
jshenry@comp.uark.edu

>===== Original Message From sean@therileys.org =====
>Not sure about that particulr model, but some Seagate models have a jumper
>setting that allows spin up to be delayed, if this is set, you will get the
>question mark everytime.
>
>Ulrich Hausmann wrote:
>
>> a little exception: some drives, seagate barracuda 4 gb (=Dec rz 29b)
>> requires a lot of power when spinning up and possibly, the powersupply is
>> not able to do. with such hd, on my IIci i often had no happy mac on the
>> boot screen but a blinking question mark. alternatives are to power up
>> the hd externally (suggestion by seagate itself ;-)) or to risk: normally
>> the machine booted then nevertheless).
>>
>> kind regards,
>>
>> ulrich
>>
>> Am 26.10.2000 05:07 Uhr schrieb Tod McQuillin:
>>
>> >Yes.  Almost any 50 pin narrow SCSI drive should work.