Sorry to be tardy in responding. I'm attaching a screen shot of the G4 12" disck utility screen with the LaCie attached via USB but the computer is on battery power.
I have been trying to network the computers via wireless or ethernet and had no success. I'm probably not doing something simple but anyway have made no progress on getting the music off the old G4 and on to the MacBook Pro. The old G4 does not have Firewire.
Do I need to partition the hard drive to get it to work? I was at the Apple store the other day and they told me the 10.2.8 was not compatible with the Lacie hard drive.
I was looking at TuneRanger but that needs 10.4 or newer, is that just on the computer where it is installed. The other thing which I will try is to power the old G4 when it is hooked to the Lacie and see if that makes any difference.