hard drive compatibility issue

i was running a western digital drive with mac osx 10.6.3
i switched to a hitachi drive that is running osx10.6.8
i have the 2.66 ghz quad core entel xeon 8 gigs of ram
the new drive locks up anybody got an answer for this problem?

these drives are all hot swap hard drives. just one drive is giving major issues

Does it lock up in any other position? In other words, have you tried it in any of the other slots?

Download SMARTReporter and let it run in the Menu Bar. it will advise if you have drive problems. It does happen even brand new HDD do fail.


http://www.corecode.at/smartreporter/

the dumb guy said:

i switched to a hitachi drive that is running osx10.6.8

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Where did you get this hard drive? Was OS X installed while it was on a different Mac?
Because different hardware requires different drivers, OS X installations are Mac model-specific.

Yes I was installed on some othe mac. how would I go about finding the correct drivers

Boot from your Snow Leopard disc, holding down 'C' after the chime, leave installer and go to Utilities > Disk Utility > Repair Disk > Partition and choose GUID. Then back to installer and run it. When finished download the OS X.6.8 Combo Updater.


http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399