Stewie, Thanks for the link. It was pretty much conjecture until eww posted: "I recently bought a USB 2 portable hard drive enclosure and a USB 2 adapter card... I was careful to buy a drive enclosure that came with two cables: a USB data cable and a usb power cable, so the drive is able to connect to two USB ports: one for both power and data, and the second for additional power only. When I connect both cables to the two USB 2 ports on my adapter card, my drive... doesn't get enough power to spin up and can't be used. If I connect the drive's data cable to one of the ports on the card, and the auxiliary power cable to one of my built-in USB 1.1 ports, the drive works perfectly."
Although my situation is not exactly the same I decided to experiment (my usb enclosure has the double headed usb cable for extra power). I booted into the install disk and tried every possible combination of connecting the enclosure to my Pismo through either a 4 port usb hub and/or a 2 port usb adapter card (and of course my 2 internal usb ports), using disk utility to eject the external drive in between each iteration. It didn't help: the install disk never recognized the drive in the enclosure as being suitable for installing/booting Tiger. Out of frustration I tried "restoring" Tiger on the 1st partition again. This time, I was allowed the option to verify and repair permissions! Alas, when I tried to verify permissions, I was given an error message stating that permissions could not be verified because the were no "valid packages." I don't know what that means yet (I'm a bit too bleary eyed to check it out at this late hour), but it seems that I may have made some (very small) progress. On Sep 7, 9:31 pm, stewie <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmmm. > After further Googling , it seems some model PPC Macs can boot from > USB after all. > This article > here...http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1469972&tstart=30 > has some interesting info and may give you a few pointers. > > Stewie --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
