>My beige G3 DT 233MHZ has ROM Rev A which doesn't support a slave hard
>drive. I have installed and am using a USB PCI card for other devices which
>works fine. Will an external USB HD boot and mount on the desktop without a
>ROM change? I could also add a firewire card (one empty PCI slot left). Any
>reason to regarding benefits of a firewire external HD? Also, I have an
>Iomega 100MB Zip drive plugged into my scuzzy port and it mounts fine. Would
>a true scuzzy HD mount there as well, or, in place of? Thanks
AFAIK a non-USB Mac is not capable of booting from PCI USB or
FireWire devices (I could be wrong as I only had a 7500) . My 7500
only enabled USB after the USB card extension was loaded by Mac OS.
This annoted me more than somewhat as i had no k/b until after the OS
started to load but that's a side point. This means that it
effectively can't find any USB devices until the USB extension loads,
I presume the same is true for FireWire (I never got that far!). YMMV.
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